Magic Lantern slide circa 1900 hand coloured. Titled Cities and places of interest in the Mediterranean. 17- ??”CORSICA. Looking down from Nice across the sparkling waters to the south, in the early morning, the eye rests on a dim haze that presently shapes itself into the snow-capped mountains of Corsica, the birthplace of the first Napoleon, the arbiter of others' fate, who at last became the suppliant for his own. The island is extremely beautiful and romantic, being a mass of woods and forests, mountains and streams, with quaint villages and towns dotted about it at considerable dis????tances from each other. The natives are by no means an agreeable race, being a wild and dishonest people, and carrying their revengeful feelings to such an extent that their vendettas have become world renowned [ The accompanying view shows us Corti, one of the most picturesque of its inland towns.