Show ROMAN ROAD TO LAST parts part 0 of f magnificent marble paved high highway w ay iy across acro macedonia are still passable as a in days day we do not know how Nerl polls uolar ad in pauls time though it must have been bean a place ot of some able importance since the great egnation Eg Egnat natian lau way a splendid road pared with marble and which stretched all the way fron rome to this outermost boundary of macedonia ended here this road traversing the whole southern bouthern ou thern part ot of italy from the mediterranean to brindisi on the adriatic began again after the interruption of 0 the adriatic at durazzo Du nazo then it went across tho the breadth ot of macedonia Allice donla to salonic apollonia Apoll onla Amp hipolis phil IPPI and Nea polls with all our modern pride in road building since time began there has ha perhaps never bi bam constructed such a magnificent highway as this after passing som elarce elarge modern tobacco warehouses and some bonie fine homes belonging to the tobacco co magnates we came to the edge of the city and faced a tremendous rock hill seemingly composed compo gad of solid gearil lm on which not a blade of grass grasa or the smallest emal lest shrub could find lodgment black and forbidding la Is this great mass maga of 0 rock like the black hills of montenegro beside the modern road and not more than fifty yards avray in many klaoes the old roman road was waa plainly visible it Is now so out of repair as to be impassable and yet in some small stretches it is as an smooth and aa r 3 ell eli paved as aa in tile the ancient days though I 1 saw none of the marble slabs with which it is said to have ileen been covered I 1 dese descended ended from our ancient chariot and walked upon some borne of these stones of the tha old road Christ christian lan herald |