In descending one passes through a long tunnel cut in the rock, and that is half-way.

At St.Jean de la Riviere you will find yourselves in the valley of the Vesubie.

Here, again, one mounts continually by the side of the river.

The road is a dangerous one, for there are landslips and chutes of stone--at times the whole roadway is swept down into the river." The man, with the quick gestures of his people, described all so graphically that I could see the road and its environments as he traversed it in imagination.
"Before long, however, one sees Venanson," he went on, "a church and village on a point of rock far above the river.

At a turn of the road Venanson is left behind; and in front, three thousand feet above the sea, surrounded by snow mountains, lies St.Martin Lantosque.