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Believing that the road across country from Grasse to Vence-Caynes 

 afforded some of the best scenery on the Riviera, I determined to cut across on 

 foot. There is no railway at present direct from Grasse to Nice, although one 

 is now building. To go by rail, means a long detour via Cannes, Antilles, etc. 

 I was not disappointed as to the scenery ; it is, indeed, a most beautiful route 

 that by the highway. Stepping out sharp — for time was now very limited — 

 Grasse was soon left behind, but, looking back, one has many delightful peeps 

 through the wooded and flowered country at the old ville. Before the windings 

 of the road oust it completely out of sight, you have learned to appreciate Grasse 

 and its surroundings so blessed by nature. Numerous coquette and artistic 

 villa-residences are passed, fronted by gardens full of luxurious growths. Some 

 of the cottages look intensely snug, covered as they are by an avalanche of 

 eternal-spring greenness. Romantic waterfalls and warbling rivulets are rife 

 among the mountain hills running off from the roads. The fragrance of violets 

 is particularly noticeable in the air, although no violets may be seen about. It 

 was in the month ot February when I thus passed over the road, yet everything 



Fie. 562. — Along the Road in Gra.*sk Vicinity, One of the Beauty Scenes. 



