A Handbook for Travellers in Sicily: Including Palermo, Messina, Catania, Syracuse, Etna, and the Ruins of the Greek Temples (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from A Handbook for Travellers in Sicily: Including Palermo, Messina, Catania, Syracuse, Etna, and the Ruins of the Greek Temples

Plaim. - There is little level ground in Sicily; but here and there on the coast, where the mountains recede from the sea, there are wide tracts of low, level land, generall of great fertility. The largest is the great Plain of Catania, the Campt' gontt'ni of antiquity, fabled as the native place of wheat, and the spot where Ceres first taught man the practice of agricul ture. The other plains are those of Palermo, fondly termed the Conca d'oro, or Golden Shell, and of Castellamare, on the northern coast, and those of Licata and Terranova on the southern; the latter renowned of old as the Campi Gelai.

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