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into the sea, dividing the adjacent ba^'s. Lining the Haie des 

 Anges — the wide ba^• of Angels — is the white town 

 of Xice set in a semicircle of green hills; and tlien rise 

 nionntain upon mountain until be\ ond Bordighera the out- 

 line of the coast fades a\\'a\' in the mist\' distance. 



This view made n(^ impression upon Castor, Ide 

 carelulh' sniffed the stones upon which earlier tourists 

 must have eaten man\- a breakfast. Without doubt lie 

 devoted all his imagination to conjuring up the details 

 of the different "menus''; then lie A'awned repeatedh-, 

 la^- clown and \\ent to sleep. 1 lonr.s \\ent b^' before -we 

 decided to return. 



CHAPTER X. 



^^'e could not well leave the Pic d'Aurele unnoticed, 

 as it was so close at hand. We felt bound tn make 

 the ascent, it onh' in honour of that Aurelius from whom 

 it takes its name. Wliich Am'elius it was whose name 

 this rock bears, and who immortalised the old Roman 

 Road, is not known for certain. In all probabilit\' it was 

 Cains ,\urelius Cotta, because lie designed the ]ilan lor 

 this great highway- and carried out its construction from 

 Rome to Pisa in the \'ear 241 H. C. Emilius Scaurus 

 then continued the road to Vada Sabatia, the \'ado ot 

 toda\'. which lies between vSa^•ona and Albcnga, and 

 Augustus carried it on far bc\i)nd A^entimiglia to Aries. 

 The stretch Irom Pisa to \'ada Sabatia \\ as first 

 called the road of Emilius v^caurus, to distinguish it from 

 that \'ia Emilia which united Rimini and Piacenza, and 

 owed its origin to Emilius Lepidus. Later the name of 



