. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. CASTILIAX SERGEANT AT PERTHUS {pdgC IQO). BANVULS-SDR-MER {page IQS) To face page i6i A CROSS-COUNTRV JOURNEY TO ILLE 161 they did, even built a statue to the great Wind at view from the chateau is superb, extending far over thered roofs of its village to the blue-green plain of the Tet, tothe Corbieres which bound it on the farther side, and to thesea beyond Perpignan and Elne. In the courtyard of the chateau there is a marble well-headwith ancient Gothic letters which tell that it was made
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. CASTILIAX SERGEANT AT PERTHUS {pdgC IQO). BANVULS-SDR-MER {page IQS) To face page i6i A CROSS-COUNTRV JOURNEY TO ILLE 161 they did, even built a statue to the great Wind at view from the chateau is superb, extending far over thered roofs of its village to the blue-green plain of the Tet, tothe Corbieres which bound it on the farther side, and to thesea beyond Perpignan and Elne. In the courtyard of the chateau there is a marble well-headwith ancient Gothic letters which tell that it was made fora Lord of Cms; and the whole space about it, and belowthe paved court, is the cistern upon which the life of thechateau depended. One wing of the court is modern ; buta solid archway near the well-head leads into a vaultedchamber lighted by a single embrasured window, whichdates from the earliest days of the chateau. Below this,again, and in the very bowels of the rock, there is a darkand silent room, to which there is no access but by a ladderdescending through a trapdoor, and no light but that whichis permitted to enter
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