. The Burton Holmes lectures;. KliM IM \ I ,iK RO, AND RIVKR ports what ? A score of peasants every day, and everyweek perhaps a dozen tourists. A locomotive and one carsuffice for the daily traflic. The speed never exceeds five 204 GRECIAN JOURNEYS miles an hour, while on the steepest portion of the linewhere cog-machinery is used, progress is barely car advances with a series of jerks, each one of whichlands us a few inches nearer heaven. The car is crowded,hot, the windows are full of heads. While looking out onone side, we miss some splendid vista on the other. Thenwhen we
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. KliM IM \ I ,iK RO, AND RIVKR ports what ? A score of peasants every day, and everyweek perhaps a dozen tourists. A locomotive and one carsuffice for the daily traflic. The speed never exceeds five 204 GRECIAN JOURNEYS miles an hour, while on the steepest portion of the linewhere cog-machinery is used, progress is barely car advances with a series of jerks, each one of whichlands us a few inches nearer heaven. The car is crowded,hot, the windows are full of heads. While looking out onone side, we miss some splendid vista on the other. Thenwhen we enter tunnels, the puffing locomotive belching outsteam, hot air and gassy fumes fills the rocks cavern and thecar itself with a deadly atmosphere ; and when the trainemerges, we find ourselves half suffocated, gasping for windows are then thrown quickly open, and all heads arethrust far out at risk of being bumped against the rocks, whileour scorched lungs draw in selfish haste a cooling GRECIAN JOURNEYS 205.
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