Italy at war and the allies in the west . ffi £ ^e K «.. 2 3 TO ^ nl ON THE ROOF OF EUROPE 79 merely interrupted a most interesting morn-ings ride. Leaving the car in the shelter of a hill, wetoiled up a steep and stony slope to a point fromwhich I was able to get an admirable idea ofthe general lay of Italys Eastern Front. Com-ing toward me was the Isonzo—a bright bluestream the width of the Thames at New Lon-don—which, happy at escaping from its gloomymountain defile, went rioting over the plainin a great westward curve. Turning, I couldcatch a glimpse, through a notch in the hills,of the wh
Italy at war and the allies in the west . ffi £ ^e K «.. 2 3 TO ^ nl ON THE ROOF OF EUROPE 79 merely interrupted a most interesting morn-ings ride. Leaving the car in the shelter of a hill, wetoiled up a steep and stony slope to a point fromwhich I was able to get an admirable idea ofthe general lay of Italys Eastern Front. Com-ing toward me was the Isonzo—a bright bluestream the width of the Thames at New Lon-don—which, happy at escaping from its gloomymountain defile, went rioting over the plainin a great westward curve. Turning, I couldcatch a glimpse, through a notch in the hills,of the white towers and pink roofs of Monfal-cone against the Adriatics changeless the east of Monfalcone rose the red heightsof the Carso, the barren limestone plateauwhich stretches from the Isonzo south intoIstria. And beyond the Carso I could tracethe whole curve of the mountains from in frontof Trieste up past Gorizia and away to theCarnia. The Italian front, I might add, dividesitself into four sectors: the Isonzo, the Carniaand Cadore, the Tr
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