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Its seething, foaming, irresistible torrent needs only a large volume to make it the equal of the rapids at Niagara. Our return to the post-road was made by an unbeaten track over the Ala Tau mountains.
The post-road, after leaving Rustemabad, leads through the valley of the Sefid Roud river, in which, by the way, there is excellent salmon-fishing. About six miles from Rustemabad is a spot called by the natives the "Castle of the Winds," on account of the high winds that, even in the calmest weather, prevail there.
The so-called "post-road" from Kamchatka to St. Petersburg, which skirts the Okhotsk Sea for more than a thousand miles, passes through the village of Okhotsk, and then, turning away from the coast, ascends one of the small rivers that rise in the Stanavoi Mountains; crosses that range at a height of four or five thousand feet; and finally descends into the great valley of the Lena.
"If he will guide me to the Post-road, that is all I ask," said she hurriedly. Involuntarily she glanced upward. The curtains in an upstairs window were blowing inward and a dim light shone out upon the roof of the porch. She shuddered and then climbed up to the seat and took her place at the wheel.
The viscountess was overwhelming in thanks, and complained that her sister Jacqueline had been in such a hurry to see her niece that she would not give her time to come properly in her own carriage with post-horses, though, to be sure, the post-road was not only longer, but more expensive; she herself was obliged to return almost immediately to Nantes, where she had left three other little kittens, who were anxiously awaiting her.
The excellence of the roads constructed by Mr. Telford through the formerly inaccessible counties of North Wales was the theme of general praise; and their superiority, compared with those of the richer and more level districts in the midland and western English counties, becoming the subject of public comment, he was called upon to execute like improvements upon that part of the post-road which extended between Shrewsbury and the metropolis.
She said "O Lazarre!" and Paul beat on Ernestine's knee, echoing "O Zar!" and my comfort was absolute as release from pain, because she had come to visit her old friend the marquis. I helped her down and stood with her at the latticed door. "How bright it is here!" said Eagle. "It is very bright. I came up the hill from a dark place." "Did the news of his death meet you on the post-road?"
My thermometer marked only one degree above zero when we retired to rest, and the wood was too damp to light a fire. But we are in Persia! It is only fair, however, to say that the road we were now travelling is not the regular post-road, which lies some distance to the eastward of Rabat Kerim, but was now impassable on account of the snow. The smaller track joins the main road at Koom.
Rather an original idea, one would say, to have a blue orb of day instead of a golden one such as adorned so many other inns on the great post-road but originality had had nothing whatever to do with it.
The old royal post-road from Paris to Lyons, passing through Fontainebleau, runs nearly due south until it strikes the high banks of a small tributary of the Seine, when it turns south-west and climbs the hills toward Nemours, the next post-town.
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