. Across Asia Minor on foot . themorning sun, and the intervening space, and allother spaces in the valley bottom, were filled withgardens and vineyards and green patches of stream that tumbled into the valley was carriedaway at once in various channels, for purposesof irrigation. The impressions given by Nar as Ilooked from the edge of the brown and barren plateau,were of autumn foliage, green grass, and yellow rocks,the sound of splashing water, and bright warm sun-shine over all. And when I clambered down the cliff, and crossingthe valley of gardens entered the village, it was evenb


. Across Asia Minor on foot . themorning sun, and the intervening space, and allother spaces in the valley bottom, were filled withgardens and vineyards and green patches of stream that tumbled into the valley was carriedaway at once in various channels, for purposesof irrigation. The impressions given by Nar as Ilooked from the edge of the brown and barren plateau,were of autumn foliage, green grass, and yellow rocks,the sound of splashing water, and bright warm sun-shine over all. And when I clambered down the cliff, and crossingthe valley of gardens entered the village, it was evenbetter than its promise. Clean, narrow, sandy pathswound about and went up and down among rocks,and vines, and trees, and quaint buildings, andrunning streams, with the unexpected at every path, narrow as a goat-track, would take meround, or perhaps over, a great detached mass ofyellowish rock, and on the other side would belatticed windows peeping from the surface of thissame rock, for it was in fact a dwelling. Steep. \allc\ and Ruck-hewn \illa;;c of Nar.


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