So Disdained
“There was a copy of the Encyclopædia Britannica there; I opened it at a map of Italy and stood staring vacantly at the Ligurian Riviera. I had been along that coast as far as Monte Carlo from Nice; farther than that it was quite unknown to me. In the end I had to turn to the Index for information about Lanaldo. I found it on the map then. It was one of a dozen very small towns up in the hills, rather more behind Ventimiglia than Mentone.
That map was on too small a scale. I had taken on the job... of re-arranging the library one winter, so that I knew my way about. There was a series of atlases there called "Maps of Europe". I dragged out one of the volumes and found quite a good map of the country behind San Remo, to a scale of about two miles to the inch.
My heart sank as I studied it. Lanaldo lay about six miles inland from the sea, and about three from the French frontier. It stood on the side of the Roja valley, about three hundred feet above the main road that runs up the valley from Ventimiglia to the north.MoreLess
That map was on too small a scale. I had taken on the job... of re-arranging the library one winter, so that I knew my way about. There was a series of atlases there called "Maps of Europe". I dragged out one of the volumes and found quite a good map of the country behind San Remo, to a scale of about two miles to the inch.
My heart sank as I studied it. Lanaldo lay about six miles inland from the sea, and about three from the French frontier. It stood on the side of the Roja valley, about three hundred feet above the main road that runs up the valley from Ventimiglia to the north.MoreLess
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