. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. into the seclusion of the HighPyrenees. The river is always near at hand, and always,except for one ominous moment, a lively and beautifulcreature. It is a dark silvery stream very different to theriver famihar to those who know it only below Mont places it comes foaming down in white cascades overgreat boulders, through sheer and precipitous gorges, shut inby high mountains, like a river in the Tyrol; and at othersit flows tranquilly and at peace across green meadows,shallow and clear as glass,
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. into the seclusion of the HighPyrenees. The river is always near at hand, and always,except for one ominous moment, a lively and beautifulcreature. It is a dark silvery stream very different to theriver famihar to those who know it only below Mont places it comes foaming down in white cascades overgreat boulders, through sheer and precipitous gorges, shut inby high mountains, like a river in the Tyrol; and at othersit flows tranquilly and at peace across green meadows,shallow and clear as glass, with its low grassy banks, thehaunt of vast herds of cattle and of brood-mares with theiryoung. One comes upon these cattle and horses feeding,apparently unowned, with no human soul in sight, the cattlemoving solemnly along the edge of the woods, the horsesstanding knee-deep in the complacent waters, alive withswift-glancing trout; and it is like a picture of a long bygoneage, when man had not yet come to tame these wild creaturesand convert them to his use. You would never dream, if. ON THE ROUTE TO BOUILLOUSE, THE CARLITTEIN THE DISTANCE {page 316)
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