A Californian circling the globe . £. t STREET IN POMPEII. CHARIOT RUTS FROM FOLK To FIVE INCHES IN DEPTH. FROM ROME TO SMYRNA. 115 ascending slope, then at the abrupt climb to reach the top,and my heart sank within me. Was I equal to the emergency?I saw before me one of the hardest physical efforts of mylife. I resolved to carry it through. We passed along for about two miles fine looking vineyardseach side of the road. They were gathering the vintageand in places we saw them treading out the wine with theirfeet. Some fig trees with fine fruit on them were scatteredby the roadside and through
A Californian circling the globe . £. t STREET IN POMPEII. CHARIOT RUTS FROM FOLK To FIVE INCHES IN DEPTH. FROM ROME TO SMYRNA. 115 ascending slope, then at the abrupt climb to reach the top,and my heart sank within me. Was I equal to the emergency?I saw before me one of the hardest physical efforts of mylife. I resolved to carry it through. We passed along for about two miles fine looking vineyardseach side of the road. They were gathering the vintageand in places we saw them treading out the wine with theirfeet. Some fig trees with fine fruit on them were scatteredby the roadside and through the vineyards. We met womenand men carrying great baskets of grapes and figs on theirheads. Then we came to ridges of lava, and as we climbedthe slope we passed away from the vineyards and into hun-dreds of acres of little pine trees, many of them not overtwo feet tall, planted in rows. The large pine trees of Italyare very different from any I have yet seen in other parts ofthe world. At their tops they spread out like a Japaneseum
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