. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. onest in another, and poHticsall over the world have a tendency to be unclean. Leaving the wide pictured plain, the railway enters anarrow defile of the Ter, and the landscape loses in beauty,till near Ripoll, it opens out once more into a small andsmiling valley of cornfields, with its monastery tower andhouses clustering at the foot of the Pyrenean snows. Thiswas evidently the type of abode most favoured by the oldGothic Counts, who seemed to love a little open mountainvalley, with a narrow and difficu
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. onest in another, and poHticsall over the world have a tendency to be unclean. Leaving the wide pictured plain, the railway enters anarrow defile of the Ter, and the landscape loses in beauty,till near Ripoll, it opens out once more into a small andsmiling valley of cornfields, with its monastery tower andhouses clustering at the foot of the Pyrenean snows. Thiswas evidently the type of abode most favoured by the oldGothic Counts, who seemed to love a little open mountainvalley, with a narrow and difficult access to it from the in these strongholds from sudden attack, they hadyet about them the means of a comfortable existence, and astime went on they extended their authority over the moun-tains and the adjoining valleys. The general character ofthe Vale of Ripoll is very similar to that of Vernet; but theSpanish touch is revealed in the heavy unmetalled road,over which one is carried amidst clouds of suffocating dustor a sea of mud, according to the state of the JUNE IN THE CERDAGNE
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