"On the whole I was much disappointed with all after Mentone, until I got to , but there the valley runs up between ve…"

"Blown, all alone, o’er the watery miles; Lost, I was tossed on those grape-laden isles."

"The sea, autumn mildness, islands bathed in light, fine rain spreading a diaphanous veil over the immortal nakedness …"

"The Ægean Sea waters two sides of Greece; first, the eastern side, extending from the promontory Sunium to the north …"

"Cutch is composed chiefly of hills, woods, and sandy wilds; and we are utterly ignorant of any particulars, relating …"

"The Ran is the delta of the Hakra, the lost river of Sind."

"Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull’d by the coil of his crystàlli…"

"At certain periods of the evening and the morning the blue of the Mediterranean surpasses all conception or descripti…"

"That centre was the Mediterranean; which was not so much a piece of water as a world. But it was a world with somethi…"