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PKOSPECT Fr5m a hill. 
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humbler classes, and honeycombed with the tombs 
of the wealthy. The modest, graves, and the more 
pretentious moss-grovm tombs, were overrun and 
partially concealed by the smjill-flowered bramble, 
the wild rose, and the yellow chrysanthemum, 
while vines clung here and there in graceful fes- 
toons, and clustered about the angular rock-masses 
and the scattered rounded boulders. Stretched 
below were green, fertile plains, dotted with villages 
more numerous than the eye could count, standing 
l)oldly out, or sheltered in groves of dark evergreen 
fig-trees. The rich alluvial plains Averc green Avith 
garden stuff, or golden Avith the ripe waving fields 
of padi, and all Avere Avatered by canals and inter- 
secting rivulets, like the Avater-meadoAvs of England 
on a gigantic scale. 
