Gulf of Genoa

"On the whole I was much disappointed with all after Mentone, until I got to , but there the valley runs up between very noble mountains, now covered with snow, and the coast road afterwards is delicious — the precipices & galleries very grand indeed, & the water more like an imagination than a fact. Still, it was grander in most respects, in the storm, until a point about six miles before we got here, where sweeping out of a Gondo like gallery, you open the whole gulph of Genoa, with its grand hills, as far as — in the near bay — Genoa glittering on the opposite side of the gulph. The same view of Genoa is commanded from the port here, and I sat watching it, and, what I had never seen before, shoals of dolphins of large size bounding along the quiet swells of the sea. It gave me some new ideas altogether."

"The Gulf of Genoa itself presents the most exquisite colouring, and has been elegantly styled by a female Traveller, 'a vast prism.'"