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it is said to have been a costly undertaking in lives as well as money. but the result is me of the finist mountain roads in the world. There are some enormous cuttings through almost solid rock and along the face of the precipilous cliffs. The guide says:- "with a wide and solid roadway it is still an exiting thing to drive at full pace along the edges of those huge precipices between Mri??? of thatti???. Many of the loftiest bridges have more than once been swept away by the mountain streams. But hitherto they fewsnows accidents have happened to any passenger in the Kashuis??? Durga + Every year the danger of such, with ordinary care grows less."

We met a remarkable old lady at Duime. She is apparently the widow of an English officer. + has a Scoth Mother + French father. Many of her relatives are in the French Army + Her only son has been killed. The Germans are wolin??? 11uules??? of the pelinat chateau which they have twice attacked with bnuts??? - but missed.

She is an thoroughally lives in the hills have being forbidden by the doctors to relum??? to Europe. She was in Baranuilla for the feasts of Ascension + whilsum?? as there is an R.C. mission there. She seems to be occupied at present in mourning Dairy Farms + Catching German spies. She says that last year she collared several rifles being introduced to the country doublliss??? by German agency! She is a wierd old thing + an really hardly knew how much to believe!

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