The Somerset reporter., 1885-07-15

Military discipline il here the great or
der 81 fh.. day. N~yer for one moment eau
yau iaf set itt- ruilnZ -pirit. I'm darc not
pro inrr = pencil and not 10 till your
sk.tchin2 pa-- l. duly sigu-d and COULTER
signed. ana evan that j. only given for d
limited period, AID With the proyiso that
you must maxi NJ drawing Of any iortih
cation [as il you cpud omit the one char
actetist Of the pisceJ. Al every turn
you come Oh new batteries, grea. guns aud
mortars, With tier thousand hard, black
eyes, keeping watch and ward. Deaths
playthings everywhere, the very gsr4en-
yielding only grspesbot and n-her Dead Sea
fruit Beside toe graceful flower vases are
heaped up great pyramids VI cannoD-b4ils;
fixed bayobets gleam beneath the spik'd
sioes; tail psames Of grasses wave over
pinm' olnets, md scariet blossoms H.
solve themselves iut0 iafisns a first on,
then another weil-ku0wu regiment march
- down with pipes playing for there j.
held-day on the parade ground in a. pict-
Uresque a spot as you are likely to find,
Spanlards and MoDrs jews and Briton-
are among The spectators, 70 say nothing
Of X OK -corpiu-, a. English ch ldren born
Oh 'Old Glib are called. d uo less, also,
the Barbary apes are looking down Oh Us
from their Aaunts among the cliffs, where
they still Ind refuge, being protected by
stringent laws. They are taiiiess. OF course,
as their name implies. Poor, humble.
looking creatures, yet pore precious than
all their loog-taied brethren, inasmuch "a
they are the sole representatives Of the
monkey tribe still existing in Europe.
They are found, however, 10 vast numbers
On the coast Of Barbary; aud this handful
Of the rock seems TO c. rroborate the story
Of the former union Of tie two continents
II would seem that the making OF the
Phpaicjan canal had cut of the retr Al 81
this Mite garrison. solating them from
their fellows. But, though they alone re-
main as living proofs Of the time when
Europe aud Africa were one. there are
wonderful caves 10 .he rocks where bones
Of elephants and rhnocefoses, leopard-
and hycna-, lie bleaching together, a. they
have IAN Tor countless centuries; strange
memorials of still more remote ages,
when they aud their fellows were Tree to
wander at large through Spanish and Itali-
an forests, and thence pass uudisturted to
Calais ard across the dry land % Dover,
there To leave their Old bones for the
wonder and edihcation Of curious and 10
qnisltive human beings in this nineteenth
century. The caves are not at all anted-
luvan tombs. Some have been homes Of
the living, who have sought an asylum in
times of CANCER.
ont OF the most interesting Of these
rock dwellings is known as Martins Cave;
is Oh enterance is from the actual face
OF the precipce, the perpendicular cliff
covering 100 feet above II, while an eqaal-
" precil'itou> wall Of natural and artificial
Qualifications lies between it aud the ca N
blue sea below. The only scce>s To thi.
cave Is along steep and dangeraus rocky
ledge, scarcely to be called a path, whence
one false step would hur you through mid
air TO tind your rest in the quiet waters OF
tae Medlierranean But within The cavern
you Will lind still qleter waters. Ypu
pass from the glowing sunlight into .he
dim, ghCstly cave. where .all staagmites
rise up TO meet the pendant sta actites
which aaorn he roof, givin- an efrct Of
gray pillars, some slender. some massive
and as yoI peer through these into ths In
termost reces>es of the cave you perceive
STILL dark pool, into which from time to
time one single drop Of water falls with q
dull splash from the OK abaYe-BI
grdria.