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Ischia

noun

A volcanic island (part of Campania) in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the north end of the Bay of Naples.

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"Ischia" Quotes from Famous Books

... Feast of the Assumption, in the year of our Lord 1654, at the town of Ischia, in the island of that name, belonging to the kingdom of Naples, of respectable parents, Joseph Calosirto and Laura Garguilo, and was upon the same day christened Charles Cajetan. He early discovered the seeds of those virtues that in a special manner enriched his soul, and ...

— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler

... strand; there were the snowcaps fading on the far horizon; the bronzed fishermen and their wives, a sheer two hundred feet below him, pulling in their glistening nets; the amethyst isles of Capri and Ischia eternally hanging midway between the blue of the sky and the blue of the sea; and there, towering menacingly above all this melting beauty, the dark, grim pipe of Vulcan. How easily, indeed, he could see ...

— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath

... islands form part of a chain of land that may be traced forming a circular line from the cape Missene to the mount Circello at the other side of the Gulf of Gaeta. The islands of Ischia and Procida, which form part of this chain of land, might, from the inspection of the map, be allowed as having once formed a continuation of the land from the continent of Italy, even without the testimony of natural history, ...

— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton

Words linked to "Ischia" : Campania, island