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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Still following the tracks of the prints, Larsan and I passed out of the oak grove and reached the border of the lake. There they turned off to a little path leading to the high road to Epinay where we lost the traces in the newly macadamised highway. "We went back to the chateau and parted at the courtyard.
The roads which intersect this charming island were beautifully Macadamised, as I well remember, long before that grand improvement was heard of in England; and as the soil of the island is made up of that rich kind of mould resulting from decomposed basalt or lava, the whole surface affords a good sample of the perennial verdure of tropical scenery, which dazzles and surprises the new-comer, while its interest seldom fails to rise still higher upon a more prolonged and intimate acquaintance.
His eyes wandered involuntarily up the hill as he spoke. "Gone out walking, has she?" The youth's eyes followed in the same direction. "Which way has she gone?" "I don't know exactly which path she may have taken." Bates's words grew more formal the harder he felt himself pressed. "Path!" burst out the young man "Macadamised road, don't you mean?
I may add that there were twenty to thirty foot-passengers scattered over the portion of road in question at the time, whose footsteps might have effaced my scent on the watered granite macadamised roadway, even supposing the dog to have tried his sense of smell, which he did not, as far as I could see, and I noticed him carefully. You often give us pleasant anecdotes of our four-footed friends.
To be thoroughly successful, a trench, say six or eight inches wide, and about as deep, should be cut in the place of each rut, and these trenches macadamised. Grass grows freely in the narrow green strips between the ruts, and the track has something of the appearance of a railroad.
Russell Shaw would, I doubt not, take the contract for 4,000l., and a macadamised cart-road could be made for 500l. This would be the beginning of a much-wanted change. At present the prices of transport are appalling. Moreover, native hands are not always forthcoming. It has evidently no connection with Abyssinian Ankober.
Simple though it sounds, it is astonishingly effective, and, indeed, the sensation is almost that of walking on a hard, macadamised road.
Its surface is, for the most part, a dead horizontal level, sterile as the Sahara itself, in places smooth and hard as a macadamised road. High up among their summits is a lakelet of pure drinking water, though not a drop can be found upon the plateau itself for scores of miles around. Sedge and lilies grow by this tarn so singularly situated.
"If they're amusing," said the doctor, "let 'em come." Allison replied that the twins had been highly amusing until they ran "The Yellow Peril" over his left hand. "Poor little devils," he mused; "they've got something on their minds." "Mighty lucky for you that it wasn't a macadamised boulevard instead of a sandy country road," observed the doctor.
Out of forest and creepers into bamboo thickets; then into glades with flowering kaing grass and wild fruit, redder than tomatoes, hanging from creeping plants; across slender wooden bridges, over roaring streams, always getting lower till the path came out on the plains again on the wide macadamised road. ... It was rather sad getting on to the plain again.
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