Excerpt from Handbook to the Mediterranean: Its Cities, Coasts and Islands, for the Use The grand object of all travelling, said Dr Johnson to Paoli, is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. English travellers, having explored the Continent by land in all directions, are coming to Johnson's opinion, and, weary of the rail and river-s teamer, are flocking in yachts and sea-steamers to that great inland basin on whose shores rose all the mighty Empires of the world, whose ports and harbours became the most populous, prosperous, and magnificent cities. A desire now becoming general to visit those sunny shores and islands where winter is Shom of half its intemperance; and the facilities of moving from place to place afforded by French, Italian, Spanish, and Austrian steam companies, have produced a want for a Handbook which these pages have been prepared to supply. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.