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 ROMAN AQUEDUCT NEAR CONSTANTINE

UNDER THE AQUEDUCT

hopeless heroism as could have been inspired only by the firm conviction that death meant paradise, defeat life-long dishonor. Such were and are the people who inhabit these cloudland villages. Could we sweep the entire panorama, no fewer than two hundred villages would be revealed to us, some near, some