Castelnuovo

"We ran straight across to the centre of the first bend, in which lies a pretty place bowered in trees, called Castel Nuovo, and stopped a little farther on at the bright-looking village of Megline, lying off which we dined. Megline and Castel Nuovo are entirely inhabited by the families of merchant captains and other officers and sailors on service, and so completely are these towns, especially Castel Nuovo, thus occupied, that there is said to be scarcely a man in the place; family after family, high and low, rich and poor, consisting only of women whose husbands, fathers, or brothers are absent mariners" (pp. 101-102).