If anybody cared to dig in those caves I dare say flint weapons might be found.

It's a chance for the local antiquarian society if they'd only take it." Leaving the gorge the party turned up a steep and very narrow alley between walls nine or ten feet high.

At the tops of these walls were raised gardens planted with orange and lemon trees, whose fruit, in all stages of green, gold, and yellow, overshadowed the path.

Across some of them were erected shelters of reeds or plaited grass, to prevent too quick ripening, but in some of the orchards the crop was ready, and workers were busy with ladders and baskets gathering their early harvests.

It was a picturesque route, for the sides of the deep walls were covered with beautiful maidenhair ferns, and over the tops hung geraniums or clumps of white iris or purple stocks or clusters of little red roses.