"round the World." : Letters From Japan, China, India, And Egypt
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Though so tall and slender they have an interior staircase of one hundred and thirty steps. Our aecant was not devoid of risk, for each is said to lean fifteen inches from the perpendicular. But the river from the summit was superb, and well repaid the trouble and fatigue of the climb. At our feet, lor miles around, was stretched the crowded city, with its gaudily-painted build- ings heaped together in tangled confuaiou, while the streets were so narrow and crocked as hardly to be distinguished... in the mass. Looking down from this lofty pinnacle I caught sight of a bevy of gaily- dressed 153 ladle?, who ware sitting in a little garden within a higb enclosure the family per- haps of some wealthy native. Although women of the common class cm be seen anywhere in the street, all ladies of high rank are kept in the strictest seclusion. These were richly dressed and seemed quite pretty ; bnt perhaps it was the "distance that lent enchantment to the view. " While I was watching them through my opera- glass they caught sight of me, and looked up through their handj in imitation of nr.
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