macchi

On S. Helena his mind often reverted to them, and he would speak of the gummy odours of the macchi wafted from the hillsides to the seashore.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

On the contrary, we may be sure, when we hear their voices ringing through the olive-groves or macchi, that they are chanting

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

Following the stream, we rise through the macchi and the chestnut woods, which grow more sparely by degrees, until we reach the zone of beeches.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

As we approach the mountains, the macchi become taller, feathering man-high above the road, and stretching far away upon the hills.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

The macchi blaze with cistus flowers of red and silver.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

It is, indeed, the native growth of the island; for wherever a piece of ground is left untilled, the macchi grow up, and the scent of their multitudinous aromatic blossoms is so strong that it may be smelt miles out at sea.

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Again, the mountains themselves have in many parts been stripped of their forests, and converted into mere wildernesses of macchi stretching up and down their slopes for miles and miles of useless desolation.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

In 1853 the French began to take strong measures, and, under the Prefect Thuillier, they hunted the bandits from the macchi, killing between 200 and 300 of them.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

The Corsican bandit took to a free life among the macchi, not for the sake of supporting himself by lawless depredation, but because he had put himself under a legal and social ban by murdering some one in obedience to the strict code of honour of his country.

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Giudice della Rocca and Sampiero, becomes intelligible, nor do we fail to understand some of the mysterious attraction which led the more daring spirits of the island to prefer a free life among the macchi and pine-woods to placid lawful occupations in farms and villages.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866