Excerpt from Under the Yoke: A Romance of Bulgarian Liberty The other scenes Of action - Klissoura, Karlovo, Kop rivshtitsa, and the rest - appear in the course of this romance under their real names, and are the towns Of a lovely pastoral district. The story passes in the heart Of the famous Valley Of Roses, where the attar is made and over those billowy meadows, heavy with the redundant rose, over the hurrying water-courses, the groves of walnut and pear trees, the white cupolas ringed about with poplars, the little sparkling cities - over all this foreground Of rich fertility there rises the huge bulwark Of the inaccessible Balkan, snow-clad all though the tropic summer, and feeding the flowery plain with the wealth of its cascades and torrents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.