STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2476, sig. 109-12/123 (poškozeno) Page 14 · 14 of 63
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THING AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2476, sig. 109-12123 (damaged)
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No.155Stck.7s Abt.fifDt.π.Event: From deh warrior monument on the highest Puikt of Fe sena beyond the gorge, the most free view of this magnificent work of nature is offered. An isolated limestone-rock train, which breaks off the foreland up to 200 meters, has been cut by a sticky river, however, at the time of the snow melt and strong rain pouring huge waves through the gorge and over the cascades, in tenacious thousands of years of work, which thus wanted to pave the way to the coast. The city of Blad el-Hawa, the city of the air, is located on this rocky cliff like a proud eagle's nest Con- stantine. The Arabs call the city in their illustrious language. Nature had laid a massive bar in front of access to the sea and, like the eyes of a watchful dog, the houses of the city's air lurked over the abyss to the north. The African Trnovo I called Constantine, so it reminded me of the wonderful location of the Bulgarian rock town. But here in Africa everything is much more gigantic, almost unbelievable in ups and downs. In the quarry, in boldly guided tunnels, a road descends and on the slope inclined towards the gorge, the houses of the Arab and Jewish city nest over and next to each other, hanging to the edge of the abyss. Topped by the massive building complex of the Kasba, the city fortress. In the background towards the end of the gorge, the high modern tenements, which do not fit into this picture at all, wave too small for the size of nature and too stiff and cold for the romance of the old city, stand like bad scenes behind a picturesquely beautiful scene. Unsuspected interesting, picturesque and still completely untouched by foreign tand is the Arab and Jewish city. Slowly we work through their winding alleys towards the center of the city. Hardly three people could walk side by side on these narrow streets, so close were the houses facing each other. Their bays, supported by sloping wooden poles, continued to jump forward until they almost cobbled together, so that a soothing diaphragm light in place of the shimmering