Mentone, Cairo and Corfu . ar from the sea for a lookout, and, from its shape, couldhardly have been a residence; in its isolation, not afortress. Inness said it looked like a steeple with thechurch blown away ; and then, inspired by his owncomparison, he began to chant an ancient ditty about The next thing they saw was a barn on a hill:One said twas a barn;The other said Na-ay;And tother twas a church with its steeple blown away:Look—a—there ! This extremely venerable ballad delighted Miss Gravesin the carriage behind so that she waved her black par-asol in applause. She asked if Inness could
Mentone, Cairo and Corfu . ar from the sea for a lookout, and, from its shape, couldhardly have been a residence; in its isolation, not afortress. Inness said it looked like a steeple with thechurch blown away ; and then, inspired by his owncomparison, he began to chant an ancient ditty about The next thing they saw was a barn on a hill:One said twas a barn;The other said Na-ay;And tother twas a church with its steeple blown away:Look—a—there ! This extremely venerable ballad delighted Miss Gravesin the carriage behind so that she waved her black par-asol in applause. She asked if Inness could not sing Springfield Mountain. There is nothing left now, I said, laughing, butthe Battle of the Nile. Verney, who had sketched the tower early in thewinter, explained that the old road to Ventimigliapassed directly through the lower story, which wasbuilt in the shape of an arch. All the carriages werenow together, as we gazed at the relic. The road goes through ? said Miss Graves. Prob-ably, then, it was a FEUDAL TOWER NEAR VENTIMIGLIA This was so probable, al-though unromantic, that there-after the venerable structurewas called by that name, or,as Inness suggested, not tobe too disrespectful, the medi-eval T. G. Ventimiglia, seven milesfrom Mentone, was one of ios the most ancient towns in Liguria, the Professor re-marked. Mrs. Trescott, Mrs. Clary, and I looked muchwiser after this information, but carefully abstainedfrom saying anything* to each other of the cloudy nat-ure of our ideas respecting the geographical , we noticed, unaided, that its fortifications wereextensive, for we rolled over a drawbridge to enter it,passing high stone-walls, bastions, and port-holes, whileon the summit of the hill above us frowned a laro-e o Italian fort. The Roy a, a broad river which dividesthe town into two parts, is crossed by a long bridge ;and we were over this bridge and some distance be-yond before we discovered that we had left the oldquarter on the ot
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