. The Burton Holmes lectures;. AT TIIK ASCKNDING NET THE WONDERS OF THESSALY 321 surface, then it falls back again. We cannot believe thatwe are going up ; the world instead is going down and downand down, and the cliffs are dancing round about us likestorm-clouds in the arms of the wind. The only movementof which we are conscious is a gentle elastic jerking, as wego bobbing, turning, swinging skyward. The rope above is. THE AGES HA\E BEEN AT WORK undulating like a long yellow snake but looks no shorter thanit did before we started. The ascent is interminably slow—minutes that
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. AT TIIK ASCKNDING NET THE WONDERS OF THESSALY 321 surface, then it falls back again. We cannot believe thatwe are going up ; the world instead is going down and downand down, and the cliffs are dancing round about us likestorm-clouds in the arms of the wind. The only movementof which we are conscious is a gentle elastic jerking, as wego bobbing, turning, swinging skyward. The rope above is. THE AGES HA\E BEEN AT WORK undulating like a long yellow snake but looks no shorter thanit did before we started. The ascent is interminably slow—minutes that seem like hours pass before we reach the levelof the foundations of the tower. Wc can almost c<nmt thestrata of masonry, as jerk by jerk, our net is lifteil. We feellike miserable lish, and never have hsh been farther out of21 322 THE WONDERS OF THESSALY k»!^v?ii^ • ... v,■:■
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