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Two crabbed old villages lie along the Route, Éze
(an ancient Saracen fortress) which seems to have
grown out of the solid granite, and La Turbie with
its noble Trophy commemorating the victory of
Augustus over the Ligurians six years before the
Christian Era. As I recall these things, J. F. Clarke's
fine lines in a long-ago Atlantic Monthly come back
to me now, as often of old:

Éze and
La Turbie

Where black warships ride at anchor
in the bay of Villafranca,
Eagle-like, gray Esa clinging,
from her rocky perch looks down;
While above the mountain dim,
ruined, shattered, stern and grim,
Turbia sees us, through the ages,
with her austere Roman frown.

The weird and almost unreal beauty of Monte
Carlo has rarely received full justice, for reasons
familiar to every traveler whether gambler or student
of psychology, though by none can it be denied. 1
The idyllic little city of Monaco, perched far below on
a jutting rock promontory, had a special interest for me
from its exquisite museum filled with treasures of the
deep sea gathered in Prince Albert's various expe-
ditions.

Monte
Carlo,
Monaco

From Beaulieu we went directly to Hyères-les-
Palmiers, a well-situated breezy little city, where we
found Dr. Warden 2 and his family on a holiday

Hyères

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1 On page 215, of Chapter IX, Volume I, I ventured to compare the region
south of Point Lobos near Carmel, California, to the French Riviera. Some
months after those words were written certain scenes from a now notorious
moving-picture play located at Monte Carlo were actually filmed on the
southernmost tongue of Lobos, where, after the erection of "false fronts" of
lath and plaster, the vraisemblance was remarkably close.
2 See Chapter XLIV, page 516.

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