Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians / by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball.

  • Reynolds-Ball, Eustace A. (Eustace Alfred), 1858-1928.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians / by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Of game on I he Riviera it might he written as wrote Iceland's conscientious historian of her snakes. There is no big game, and, for all ]jractical purposes, there are no birds. A few words may, however, be permitted on the shooting in Corsica, which is easily reached from Nice by weekly steamer. The vaunted boar and moufHon shooting of this island is not at the present day its strong point, but there are, at the right season, plenty of quail and some duck, and Baslia is a good headquarters for the mixed shooting in the plains of Aleria. There is good trout- fishing in the Golo and other streams. In dismissing so abruptly the game of the Riviera, it is perhaps worth while mentioning that the King of Italy has an extensive game reserve, chiefly for chamois, in the mountains beyond St. Martin Lantosque, several hours by diligence from Nice. Leave to shoot would, however, be exceedingly difficult to obtain. The retention of this wild region (which cuts into the French frontier line) on the cession of Nice and Savoy, ostensibly as a royal hunting-ground, was a clever move on the part of the Italian diplomatists, who recognised its strategic value. VIII.—TWENTY-FOUR O'CLOCK. WE have become so accustomed to the cumbrous and illogical duplicate system of reckoning time that the very expression twenty-four o'clock has in it a suggestion of the ludicrous. But on the Continent the inconvenience of this irrational method of indicating the time has begun to be re- cognised. Italy should have the credit of first abolishing the dual notation on her railways, to be followed some years after- wards, curiously enough, by Spain; next Turkey, the most conservative country in Europe. More recently Belgium has adopted the twenty-four o'clock reckoning, and Switzerland will probably soon follow her example. This method of numbering the hours, it may be remarked, is not really a novelty in Europe. Mr. Douglas Sladen has recently called attention in the columns of a contemporaiy to an old sun-dial which he noticed on the walls of the old Monteleone Palace at Palermo, with its hours numbered from eleven to twenty-one, and signed Italicum Civile, 1826.—S. T. '