. The Burton Holmes lectures;. , a 282 THE WONDERS OF THESSALY decaying stronghold of Orthodox monasticism ? Yet we areto sleep three nights in the odor of sanctity on the summitof the tallest of the Meteora rocks up there in the right handcorner of the sky as framed by limits of the choose St. Stephens as the most accessible of the fourinhabited convents found on the skyward tips of thosetitanic arrow-heads. There are besides a score of desertedstructures perched on other peaks, wedged in -the fissures orclinging to the walls. Seeing is believing, you may say, and I reply bypo
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. , a 282 THE WONDERS OF THESSALY decaying stronghold of Orthodox monasticism ? Yet we areto sleep three nights in the odor of sanctity on the summitof the tallest of the Meteora rocks up there in the right handcorner of the sky as framed by limits of the choose St. Stephens as the most accessible of the fourinhabited convents found on the skyward tips of thosetitanic arrow-heads. There are besides a score of desertedstructures perched on other peaks, wedged in -the fissures orclinging to the walls. Seeing is believing, you may say, and I reply bypointing to- the pictures of these impossible sites. Never amI more fully conscious of the debt I owe to that most faith-ful of recording secretaries, the camera, than when I attemptto describe what we saw in the ^^^^^•■^^^^^^ threedays of our sojourn in thisenchanted BROKEN MOUNTAINS THE WONDERS OF THESSALY 283
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