Show Wonderful Nime Nimes Bridge Visitors to the cit city of Nimes Inthe in la inthe lathe the south of France make male It a point to see the Pont du Grad and amI the they are generally directed to make It a point to see the time mighty span at nt twilight ht Like all great Roman noman remains it belongs to the time twilight The rhe gorge will fold Itself Into a strange silence and solitude at that hour hom Three tiers high the vast bridge seems to know that It is one of the greatest stone monuments Inthe Inthe in inthe the world a fellow of the Pyramid or or Stonehedge or with the time m mysteries mysteries ste ries of Easter island It has a n masculine masculine masculine mas mas- culine beauty There is nothing delicate about it except the thought that its huge yellow blocks of conduIt conduit con con- duit dult stones carried for centuries the lie silver liquor of two springs to the peoples of Nimes Beneficent Father Nile When flood conditions are favorable favorable favorable favor favor- able the time retreat retreating n waters leave the whole valley valle of the Nile covered cov- cov ered thickly with black rich mud No plow Is necessary as a rule Seed wheat is thrown on to the soft mud trodden or raked in and the warm tropical sun does the time rest for forthe forthe forthe the farmer The grain grows and matures rapidly clear from weeds and und easily harvested Thus Eg Egypt pt Is free from the men men- menace menace ace of dry seasons seasons time the curse of the East East and and is e excepting in very rare circumstances certain to have good crops Corn in Eg Egypt pt came cameto to have a l proverbial l meaning through a wide section of ot semitropical semitropical semitropical semi- semi tropical country when there was shortage of 01 wheat elsewhere |