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 ON THE CHEMIN DES TOURISTES

touristes, recently created, enables man to follow the angry torrent throughout nearly its entire course. The "road of the tourists," is a narrow path that creeps along the face of the rocky wall, now along ledges made by blasting out the solid rock, now ascending or descending ladder-like stair-*ways, now crossing an abyss by means of a frail metal bridge, suspended from the overhanging cliff. Up and down