AN OLIVE GROVE 111 



. . . "Meanwhile we had arrived 



Far as the mountain foot, and there the rock 



Found of so steep ascent that nimblest steps 



To climb it had been vain. The most remote, 



Most wild, untrodden path, in all the tract 



'Twixt Lerici and Turbia were to this 



A ladder easy and of access free." 



