The country of The ring and the book . are overgrownwith weeds, and these, together with a cluster of bushes,have converted the old stronghold into a wild garden. Agarrison, and a strong garrison, still holds this redoubt,inasmuch as the garden is given over to bees. Scatteredeverywhere among the green are hives. Some of theseaim at reproducing the frame hive of the modern bee-keeper, but the greater number of them are hives of akind that Pompilia would be familiar with, for they aremade of a log of rough wood hollowed out, and providedat one end with an entrance for the bees. These uncouth,ar
The country of The ring and the book . are overgrownwith weeds, and these, together with a cluster of bushes,have converted the old stronghold into a wild garden. Agarrison, and a strong garrison, still holds this redoubt,inasmuch as the garden is given over to bees. Scatteredeverywhere among the green are hives. Some of theseaim at reproducing the frame hive of the modern bee-keeper, but the greater number of them are hives of akind that Pompilia would be familiar with, for they aremade of a log of rough wood hollowed out, and providedat one end with an entrance for the bees. These uncouth,archaic log hives are no doubt more ancient than eventhe humble skep. A road runs round outside the town from the SanClemente Gate to the Porta San Spirito, and this is theroad the fugitives followed. The San Spirito Gate hasbeen pulled down and has been replaced by a barrier,rather notable for its ugliness, called the Barriera VittorioEmanuele. So both the old gate and the old name havegone to meet the needs of modern improvements. 170. Q .2 < c S ~ § • CO OCO ~< bU » 2 IVTHE FLIGHT TO ROME 1. THE ROAD THE distance from Arezzo to Rome by Folignoand the Via Flaminia is 154f miles. There areother roads, of course, between the city and theTuscan town. The shortest is by Todi and Narni, butit does not seem to have been what the Italians callcarriageable at the end of the seventeenth road—and an old road—is by way of Chiusi andOrvieto. This road was apparently not much used in thepast, as is evident from the narratives of travellers whowere visiting Italy about the time with which the story isconcerned. I have made trial of these routes betweenArezzo and Rome, and can affirm that, in the light ofmodern requirements, the Foligno Road is the mostagreeable and, on the whole, the most easy. Theroad is described in the Yellow Book as the shortestroute and is spoken of as the Consular Road—the road, that is, made by the Consul Flaminius(p. 154). The Via Flam
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