. The Burton Holmes lectures;. IliDtDgrapli by John Wrighi Till. <)l IIACIA TklADA THE WONDERS OF THESSALY 281 cliffs, or else that the cliffs will 3ield to repeated attacks, andlike the gigantic icebergs to which Alaska glaciers give birth,separate themselves from the parent mass, wrench them-selves free, and fall like broken mountains into the laughingwaves of green. Fantastic imaginings you may say ; a fewmoments later, as we draw nearer, the possibility of a reaii-. IN THE VALE zation of this fantastic suggestion is revealed to us with suchconvincing force that we involuntarily
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. IliDtDgrapli by John Wrighi Till. <)l IIACIA TklADA THE WONDERS OF THESSALY 281 cliffs, or else that the cliffs will 3ield to repeated attacks, andlike the gigantic icebergs to which Alaska glaciers give birth,separate themselves from the parent mass, wrench them-selves free, and fall like broken mountains into the laughingwaves of green. Fantastic imaginings you may say ; a fewmoments later, as we draw nearer, the possibility of a reaii-. IN THE VALE zation of this fantastic suggestion is revealed to us with suchconvincing force that we involuntarily shrink back in startledexpectation that our dreams may come true. The birth of the iceberg of solid rock seems pillar-like masses appear as if about to topple over andcrash down upon us. The traveler who tells of the Meteora must ask for credu-lous ears, for his tale will test your confidence in his , gazing at tlicsc towering monoHtlis, would l)elie\-c thatalmost every one is crowned b\ an extensive monaster}, a 282 THE WONDERS OF THESSALY decaying stronghold of Orthodox monasticism ? Yet we areto sleep three nights in the odor of sanctity on the summitof the tallest of the Meteora rocks up there in the right handcorner of the sky as framed by limits of the choose St. Stephens as the most accessible of the fourinhabited convents found on the skyward tips of thosetitanic arrow-heads. There are besides a score of desertedstructures p
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