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 THE RIVER ENTERS PEACEFULLY

will, in the great natural sewer of Constantine, in a subway unlike that of any other city in the world. At our feet flows the river Roummel, gliding like a silver snake through a gigantic crack in the foundations of the city. Calmly it enters the ravine, but ere it escapes it must writhe and fume and leap as if in madness into still more frightful depths. We may follow the stream in perfect safety, and watch its struggles at our ease. A narrow path called le chemin des