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Perhaps, however, from a species of coquetry, the mountaineer would border the edge of the precipice with a crenellated wall, which per- mitted his children safely to play upon the whole extent of the plateau, and from whose top he could more easily spy out everything showing itself on any portion of the mountain's slopes. In many mountainous countries of the East, where the valleys are peopled with races hostile to one another, and where, consequently, the murder of a man is esteemed a mere pe...ccadillo, numbers of these rocky fortresses are still inhabited. When a guest ar- rives at the foot of the escarpment, he announces his presence by shouting. Thereupon a basket descends through an open trap in the rock, the traveller gets into it, and the stalwart arms of his friends above slowly hoist up the heavy conveyance as it gyrates in the air. If the abrupt rocks of the high valleys served to de- fend peaceable populations against all incursions, the little protuberances of the plain, on the other hand, TIJ1-: 1--REE MUL'XTAL\EER.
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