Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873

THE ROUMI IN KABYLIA. OUR HOME IN THE TYROL WILMINGTON AND ITS INDUSTRIES. MARIE FAMETTE AND HER LOVERS. SALMON FISHING IN CANADA. A PRINCESS OF THULE. AT ODDS. PHILADELPHIA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. BERRYTOWN. OVERDUE. QUEEN VICTORIA AS A MILLIONAIRE. CRICKET IN AMERICA OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP. LITERATURE OF THE DAY. Emerging from these gloomy caflons, and passing the Beni-Mansour, the village of Thasaerth (where razors and guns are made), Arzou (full of blacksmiths), and some other towns, we enter the Beni-Aidel, where numerous white villages, wreathed with ash trees, lie crouched like nests of eggs on the summits of the primary mountains, with the [Pg 490]magnificent peaks of Atlas cut in sapphire upon the sky above them. At the back part of an amphitheatre of rocky summits, Hamet, the guide, points out a little city perched on a precipice, which is certainly the most remarkable site, outside of opera-scenery, that we have ever seen. It is Kalaa, a town of three thousand inhabitants, divided into four quarters, which contrive, in that confined situation, to be perpetually disputing with each other, although a battle would disperse the whole of [Pg 491]the tax-payers over the edges. Although apparently inaccessible but by balloon, Kalaa may be approached in passing by Bogni. It is hard to give an idea of the difficulties in climbing up from Bogni to the city, where the hardiest traveler feels vertigo in picking his way over a path often but a yard wide, with perpendiculars on either hand. Finally, after many [Pg 492]strange feelings in your head and along your spinal marrow, you thank Heaven that you are safe in Kalaa. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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