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 CONSTANTINE Photograph by Neurdein Freres

describe this most astonishing of cities?" This is our thought as we cross an amazing bridge, spanning a ravine seemingly bottomless. The bridge is called by the Arabs "El Kantara," "The Bridge," for it is a unique link, binding the city to the neighboring plateau, on the edge of which our railway train has halted, panting as if in terror. We do not fully realize the marvelous situation of the place until the middle of the bridge is reached; but as our coach whirls us over that arch of steel, we see a sight that almost makes us shudder. Our gaze plunges down and down between great walls of rock into a moat such as no city in the world can boast, a moat five hundred feet in depth, overhung by Titanic