text:  Meanwhile as we "plod our weary way " some dip in the wavy round of olive-hued lumpish mountains or an abrupt huge chasm of awful rocks each side being almost perpendicular startles the traveller with a far-down prospect of some sunshiny rich leafy valley region at once showing at what a bleak elevation he has been roaming so long and tantalizing him with the contrast of that far far off low luring landscape rendering more irksome than before the dead heathery desert interminably undulating before behind and all round him