Note 162 — ALPINE SCENERY. A POEM. ADDRESSED TO THE REV. THOMAS SEDGWICK WHALLEY, DURING HIS RESIDENCE ON THE CONTINENT, IN 1785.
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l. 14. Lone Valclusa—The celebrated valley near Avignon. The laurels which Petrarch had so lavishly planted there, in allusion to the name of his mistress, are no longer to be found. Olives are now the only trees in the stony, rocky, and barren precincts near the Fountain.