Spartivento

[FN#31] The "Spartivento" of Italy, mostly a tall headland which divides the clouds.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

“Spartivento” of Italy, mostly a tall headland which divides the clouds.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Wednesday morning, I started for Spartivento and got there in time to try a good many experiments.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Elba, and trying to start the repairs of the Spartivento land line, which has been entirely neglected, and no wonder, for no one has been paid for three months, no, not even the poor guards who have to keep themselves, their horses and their families, on their pay.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Spartivento looks more wild and savage than ever, but is not without a strange deadly beauty: the hills covered with bushes of a metallic green with coppery patches of soil in between; the valleys filled with dry salt mud and a little stagnant water; where that very morning the deer had drunk, where herons, curlews, and other fowl abound, and where, alas! malaria is breeding with this rain.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

The tests, however, make me pretty sure one wire at least is good; so I determined to lay down cable from where we were to the shore, and go to Spartivento to see what had happened there.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Spartivento and for the first time at the head of an expedition.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

This was of course very pleasant; but from that time to this, though the wires test very well, not a signal has come from Spartivento.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

We get six sheep and many fowls, too, from the priest of the small village; and then run back to Spartivento and make preparations for the morning.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Spartivento, and other points; improvements in the harbour of Cagliari, and a better supply of the place with water.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester