Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Young Bramah Pooter Bantam (his mother was a Partlett, they intermarried with the Woodcocks, and are really among our very nicest people) has gone to join his mamma at Cannes, where that estimable lady is trying the effects of the soft Mediterranean climate upon her too excitable American nerves. But let not the candid reader suppose that Bramah's entire summer will be passed in soothing the dear patient's fevered brow. No, he will push a leetle farther along the Riviera. The truth is, that a little pecuniary transaction took place on Pooter's departure from home, between himself...
...other civilized country. We personally know that the railway between Syracuse and Messina is fully as good as any in Southern Europe; while the Florio steamers which ply along the Sicilian coast are decidedly the best, as far as accommodation and table go, that we have found upon the Mediterranean. The other misstatement is that Sicilian hotels are so dirty that you cannot sit down to dinner without washing your plate. The large hotels of Palermo, Messina, and Catania are among the best in Italy; while even the small Italian inns, such as the "Locanda del Sole" in Syracuse...