Show CLIFF DWELLERS OF FRANCE I 1 whole communities have hab tation j in rocky hillsides we have often heard of the cliff dwellers and are accustomed to think of them as a prehistoric race the remains of whose few scattered dwell ings are a matter of curiosity to tour ests and a prize to antiqua antiquarians rianA few people know that at the present day there are whole communities la in france whose only habitations are hollowed in the rocky hillsides and i whose entire business lle life Is carried on in caves cares we are riding tiding on the road to vouvray when suddenly at a turn near rochecorbon Roche corbon this first town of cliff dwellers burst upon us high above us towered a huge mass of overhanging rock stra strata a upon strata bearing upon its summit a most peculiar to tower supposed to have been a watch tower id III age gone by its foundations hung over tae the rock upon which they were but baut and it seemed as though it would crash down at any moment upon khe he village beneath scattered over the face oc of the cliff doors and windows narrow stairways and little belvi dereg could 1 be seen habitation upon hait habitation atlon in irr most picturesque disorder scrib ner ners s magazine |