Автор:Edward J. Lowell Год: 2010 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 414 ISBN: 9781419161391 There is perhaps no great country inhabited by civilized man more favored by nature than France. Possessing every variety of surface from the sublime mountain to the shifting sand-dune, from the loamy plain to the precipitous rock, the land is smiled upon by a climate in which the extremes of heat and cold are of rare occurrence. The grape will ripen over the greater part of the country, the orange and the olive in its southeastern corner. The deep soil of many provinces gives ample return to the labor of the husbandman. If the inhabitants of such a country are not prosperous, surely the fault lies rather with man than with nature. Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1891 года (издательство "Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and co").