Crossword-Solution: KILOM 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Yesterday, on our return, we met by appointment a picnic party at Nôrlay, and walked ten kilomètres under drenching rain to see a natural curiosity called the 'end of the world,' where limestone cliffs end in a sort of semi-circle.

This section, eight kilomètres long, occupies at least one hour and a half, zigzagging some 2,000 feet up a steep slope which its predecessor uncompromisingly breasted.

Thence we had to walk, ride, or drive--when a carriage was to be hired--over the four kilomètres which separated us from the city.

The road from Mende to the summit of the plateau can only be described as a vertical ascent; before beginning to descend, we have a few kilomètres of level, that is all.

Tardieu on October 10, 1919, in which he said: "On September 16 last, of 2246 kilomËtres of railway track destroyed, 2016 had been repaired; of 1075 kilomËtres of canal, 700; of 1160 constructions, such as bridges and tunnels, which had been blown up, 588 had been replaced; of 550,000 houses ruined by bombardment, 60,000 had been rebuilt; and of 1,800,000 hectares of ground rendered useless by battle, 400,000 had been recultivated, 200,000 hectares of which are now ready to be sown.