. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1915. 125 American IS^ee Joarnalj cousins of my wife and the old home of her father. He was born there in 1814, or 101 years ago, went to Paris in 1832, was married there and came to America in 1847. Our friends had not been idle, and they had gathered suffi- cient information to at once find two lemaining relatives, married ladies with families, who greeted us heartily. The family birthplace, we were informed, was at the upper edge of the cliff, in the old part of the city. A carriage was secured and we began ascending tortuous, nariow streets
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April, 1915. 125 American IS^ee Joarnalj cousins of my wife and the old home of her father. He was born there in 1814, or 101 years ago, went to Paris in 1832, was married there and came to America in 1847. Our friends had not been idle, and they had gathered suffi- cient information to at once find two lemaining relatives, married ladies with families, who greeted us heartily. The family birthplace, we were informed, was at the upper edge of the cliff, in the old part of the city. A carriage was secured and we began ascending tortuous, nariow streets, paved with cobblestones. The old stone houses with their narrow, grated, iron-framed windows, looked more like dilapidated jails than homes. Yet the stirring, ragged urchins which filled these open- ings, or sat on the stone steps, gave an idea of intense life. This was so unlike our own country that my wife was greatly moved, in the expectancy of finding herfather's birth- place in such ugly surroundings. But we were pleasantly surprised, for the house, though small, proved to be airy and beautifully located at the top of the hill, with a fine view of the city and the bay. From this point we could see the port, the sea baths and the Trajan arch (Arco Trajano), erected in the year ll.'j, in commemoration of the mole or jetty built by this emperor, and still in use. The arch is of marble and well preserved. In this old city, as elsewhere in It::ly, the children are numerous and happy, the men handsome, the women pretty. Almost all of them have black eyes, heavy black or auburn hair, and amber velvety skin, due to the warm sun of a country where frosts are almost un- known. On the morning of Sept. 13, we took leave of our kind friends, to continue our trip, henceforth turning our faces towards the setting sun and slowly de- creasing the distance between us and our home. Since writing the foregoing, I have found, in the 1885 volume of the "Revue Internationale," the me
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