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Extract from the Olbia Travel Guides:
When the English barrister John Tyndale visited
OLBIA
in the 1840s, he compared its Greek name, meaning "happy", with the state he found it in: "A more perfect misnomer, in the present condition of the town, could not be found? The whole district suffers severely from
intemperie
. The wretched approach across these marshes is worthy of the town itself. The houses, none of which have an elegant or neat appearance, are built mostly of granite, and are whitewashed, as if to give a greater contrast to the filth and dirt within and around them.
"The "
intemperie
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