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Identifier: edgeoforient00russ (find matches)
Title: The edge of the Orient
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, Robert Howard
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Santa Maria dello Scarpello. color ai^Minst the Ijlcak, gray nioimtain - side,which rises majestically behind to such heightsthat the tiny church in the foreground seems nobigger than a childs tov. Beyond the islands lies the pictt\- little town ofPerasto, guarding the entrance to the Bay of Ri-sano, on the farther shore of which, high up onthe mountain-side, a great fountain bursts forthfrom the solid rock and falls in white foam down 94 ,k
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Cattaro and Montenesiro the . heer cliffs into the sea below. Higher up onthe same mountain can be seen the mouth of adark ca\ciii in which is a great subterranean hike,the abode, according to kjcal tradition, of a greatdragon, who lies in its depths guarding an enor-mous diamond between his paws. Certain it isthat strange Iunibling noises are often heard j)ro-ceeding from the very heart of the mountain, andat such times, von are told, the mightv dragon isat plav and. in his s()ort, rolls the huge diamondal)out in the depths ol hisgloonu caxerii a l)al-matian I*atner as \et unconciueied, awaiting theSiegfried who shall despoil him ol his treasure. From Perasto we steer south into the hist ofthis wondeiful chain ol inland seas, and alter pass-ing IVi/anio are shut in on i\ei\ siile l)\- thegreat sterile mountains. At the exticine end olthe l)a\ towers the hii^c Lo\-(^en, one ol tlu Mackmountains ol Montenegro, and at its bast-, be-tween two toirents w jiich issue Inmi the solidrock, is

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