. The Mediterranean : its storied cities and venerable ruins . h has quite supplanted the old cathedral ofSt. Lazare, of which only a few traces remain. In themiddle distance the famous old pilgrimage chapel ofNotre Dame de la Garde crowns the summit of a pyra-midal hill, with its picturesque mass of confused archi-tecture. Away to right and left, those endless whitehills gleam on with almost wearying brightness in thesun for miles together; but full in front, where the eyerests longest, the bustle and commotion of a great tradingtown teem with varied life upon the quays and landing-places. If
. The Mediterranean : its storied cities and venerable ruins . h has quite supplanted the old cathedral ofSt. Lazare, of which only a few traces remain. In themiddle distance the famous old pilgrimage chapel ofNotre Dame de la Garde crowns the summit of a pyra-midal hill, with its picturesque mass of confused archi-tecture. Away to right and left, those endless whitehills gleam on with almost wearying brightness in thesun for miles together; but full in front, where the eyerests longest, the bustle and commotion of a great tradingtown teem with varied life upon the quays and landing-places. If you are lucky enough to enter -Marseilles for thefirst time by the Old Port, you find yourself at once in thevery thick of all that is most characteristic and vivid andlocal in the busy city. That little oblong basin, shut in onits outer side by projecting hills, was indeed the makingof the great town. Of course the Old Port is now utterlyinsufficient for the modern wants of a first-class harbor;yet it still survives, not only as a historical relic but as a. THE CANNEBIERE 99 living reality, thronged even to-day with the crowdedships of all nations. On the quay you may see the entirevaried Mediterranean world in congress assembled. HereGreeks from Athens and Levantines from Smyrna jostlecheek by jowl with Italians from Genoa and Arabs orMoors from Tangier or Tunis. All costumes and allmanners are admissible. The crowd is always excited,and always animated. A babel of tongues greets yourears as you land, in which the true Marseillais dialect ofthe Provencal holds the chief place—a graceful language,wherein the predominant Latin element has not even yetwholly got rid of certain underlying traces of Hellenicorigin. Bright color, din, life, movement: in a momentthe traveller from a northern climate recognizes thepatent fact that he has reached a new world—that vivid,impetuous, eager southern world, which has its centerto-day on the Provengal seaboard. Go a yard or two farther
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