Excerpt from The Riviera: Sketches of the Health Resorts of the North Mediterranean Coast of France and Italy From Hyères to Spezia; With Chapters on the General Meteorology of the District, Its Medical Aspect and Value, Etc
Without the assistance of Several most kind friends the work, as it now stands, would have been almost impossible for me to produce; and I here specially ofier my Sincere thanks to Dr Siordet and the Rev. Henry Sidebotham, of Mentone to Dr Henry Dau beny, of San Remo; to Mr F. Fitzroy Hamilton, of Bordighera; to Dr Niepce fils, of Nice; to. Dr Cracknell and Mr W. J. Lewis, of Oriel College, Oxford; and last, not least, to Mr J. Bruyn Andrews, of Mentone and New York, for their liberal assistance and advice. Mr Andrews has not only helped me by his intimate knowledge of the trees of the'district, as well as of native habits, but he has freely put at my disposal his valuable series of unpublished weather observa tions at Mentone. I cannot omit to mention here how much my dear friend Dr Frank, of Cannes.
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