Nice and its climate : with notices of the coast from Marseilles to Genoa / by Edwin Lee ; translated from the French, with additional observations on the influence of climate on pulmonary consumption.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Nice and its climate : with notices of the coast from Marseilles to Genoa / by Edwin Lee ; translated from the French, with additional observations on the influence of climate on pulmonary consumption. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    being near to the great centres of civilization, and easy of access; from the different charac- ters of its climate according to the position selected; from the facility of obtaining all the conveniences of life; as well as from the variety of walks and rides abounding in its environs, where the invalid may enjoy the aspect of a luxuriant vegetation of plants and flowers in a season when in most other places the earth is clad in its winter garb. In this last point of view, this spot has been referred to by one of the most highly-esteemed French poets, in the following lines;— Oh, Nice ! heureux sejour, moutagnes renommees, De lavande, de tliym, de citron parfumees ; Que de fois sous tes plants, d'oliviers toujours verts, Dout la paleur s'unit au sombre azur des mers, J'egarai mes regards sur ce theatre immense ; Combien de jouissais, &c.* It must, however, be remembered, that every medal has its reverse side, and that disappoint- ment is the necessary result of exaggerated expectations consequent upon preconceived * Delillc, —Les Jardius.—(This poem was written at Nic(>.)