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 BENEATH THE BRIDGE

flesh. We read with a shudder of all the lives that have been swallowed up by this deep gulf,—the criminals cast from above, the unfaithful wives, the suicides, and the slaves sewed in sacks by angry masters and relentlessly hurled into the ravine. The maddened Roummel, red with human blood, has borne from the sight of man those human wrecks flung from the brink. And as if to escape the horrors it has witnessed here, it creeps beneath two natural bridges, the broader of which is directly underlying the steel arch of El