text:  On the left the gulf extended to the summit of a long and obscure range of serrated mountains; on the right opened a narrow and deep valley where a fountain gushed forth beneath the shade of aged trees; behind rose a hill clothed to the top with olives which in the night appeared dark from its summit to its base--a line of Gothic towers and white houses broke the obscurity of the wood and drew the thoughts to the abodes the joys and the sufferings of man