. A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France. ing. At one oclocksharp we pulled up on the top of a mountain, 60kilometers from Rome, and enjoyed our middayrepast. Right beneath us lay the Lac du Vico,and a superb view extending as far as the eye couldsee to the southward. The afternoons run, con-stantly down grade, was completed in two and ahalf hours, and the gates of Rome reached at2: 35 We had traveled at an average speedof about 44 kilometers per hour, without a mis-hap of any kind. Our stay in Rome was short — for the nightonly. Saturday, December 21, was clou


. A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France. ing. At one oclocksharp we pulled up on the top of a mountain, 60kilometers from Rome, and enjoyed our middayrepast. Right beneath us lay the Lac du Vico,and a superb view extending as far as the eye couldsee to the southward. The afternoons run, con-stantly down grade, was completed in two and ahalf hours, and the gates of Rome reached at2: 35 We had traveled at an average speedof about 44 kilometers per hour, without a mis-hap of any kind. Our stay in Rome was short — for the nightonly. Saturday, December 21, was cloudy and windy,and we left the city at 9:15 , intending tomake Naples by sunset. For the first 30 kilometers we found the roadto be somewhat rut-worn, but it improved con-siderably as we progressed. We were now tra-versing some of the oldest historic highways inthe world. The country through which we were passing isdistinctly pleasing; consisting mainly of an im-mense plain, fairly fertile in appearance. Eastand west of us were visible huge mountain ranges [18]. owo p< oo1-1o CQW u HUW z DO O OO a VENICE TO NAPLES — the Sabine Mountains to the east and theLepini range on the west. These converged to thesouth into a valley through which our road passedand upon the sides of which were built severalold fortified villages. Beyond this the flat plainappears like a vast natural garden which, however,seems to be but sparsely peopled. A stiff clunb brought us to Ceprano, an interest-ing old town through which we passed at 11 for us the highways do not cut throughbut circumvent the outskirts of the village, sothat for once we were able to avoid the unpleas-antness which motorists usually experience whencoming into a town on a market day or a likecelebration in this part of the country. At Ceprano it is necessary to alter ones courseto northeast for some 15-odd kilometers, to thevillage of Arce, where the road once more turnsto the right, and a south-southeast directi


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