As one leaves Bethany and proceeds down the Jericho road one passes along a steep zigzag with several hairpin bends until one reaches a guardhouse near a well about a mile east of Bethany.

The path went on a broken zigzag avoiding fallen trees and soft hollows, conducting itself on the whole with more patience than firmness.

But the others went upward in curious zigzags.

With a barren gorge on our left, and the green pastures with the snow-peaks of Bugaret and Maucapéra towering behind them, straight before us, we followed the disagreeable zigzags, our horses always on the very edge, as though courting our overthrow, till, finding on reaching the "cabanes" some shepherds kindly and well disposed, we repaired to the shelter that their cow-house wall afforded, to eat our lunch.

The downward zigzags, with their uncompromising steepness, proved almost as tiring as the ascent had been, and we were more than ready for breakfast by the time we reached the ruined temples of Vernag.

The round arched doorway was set in a succession of elaborate zigzags, birds' heads, lions' faces, twists and knots; and within, the altar- hangings and the priest's robes were stiff with the exquisite and elaborate embroidery for which the English nunneries were famed.

He saw the elder zigzag along the street, and beheld him about to turn a friendly corner.

But he came upon endless rugged zigzags, which so involved and baffled him that he gave it up in despair, and returned.

This necessitated frequent zigzags, for the trees grew sparsely in spots.

The whole region was seamed by the jagged zigzags of cañons worn by rivers which had flowed for thousands of years, and then for thousands of years more had been non-existent.

The road is a narrow zigzag, making an ascent of 4000 feet in a distance of from ten to twelve miles of switch-backing around the face of a steep rock-ribbed mountain.

It was a confusing, unsteady place, and enough to send anyone's thoughts jerking into odd zigzags.

While the boys stood there, expecting every instant to hear the voice of one of their chums, rain began to fall, and a sharp zigzag of lightning cut across the sky.

[Illustration] No pains have been spared to render the remainder of the journey attractive to either the rider or the pedestrian, and to us the drive up the broad zigzags, planted with plane trees, silver beech, ash, polonia, aspen, arbutus, burberis, and innumerable other handsome trees and shrubs, was a pleasant one indeed.

Dragon-flies shoot in vigorous zigzags through the dancing swarms, and a rich profusion of butterfliesthe leguminosae of insectsmake a fine addition to the general show.