A tour through the Pyrenees . movable and eternal beings. All considerationsare overpowered by the sensation of immensity:monstrous ridges which stretch themselves out,gigantic, bony spines, ploughed flanks that drop *iin L. iJII I A yi \ I If p I I ,1NW I / ji 1 ,1/ fi H f l( ! •. Jj I I I i I V f^l Chap. VII. BERGONZ.—PIC DU MIDI. 357 down precipitously into indistinguishable is as though you were in a bark in the middle ofthe sea. The mountain-chains clash like tops are sharp and jagged like the crests ofuplifted waves; they come from all sides, athwarteach other, pile
A tour through the Pyrenees . movable and eternal beings. All considerationsare overpowered by the sensation of immensity:monstrous ridges which stretch themselves out,gigantic, bony spines, ploughed flanks that drop *iin L. iJII I A yi \ I If p I I ,1NW I / ji 1 ,1/ fi H f l( ! •. Jj I I I i I V f^l Chap. VII. BERGONZ.—PIC DU MIDI. 357 down precipitously into indistinguishable is as though you were in a bark in the middle ofthe sea. The mountain-chains clash like tops are sharp and jagged like the crests ofuplifted waves; they come from all sides, athwarteach other, piled one above another, bristling, in-numerable, and the flood of granite mounts highinto the sky at the four corners of the the north, the valleys of Luz and Argelesopen up in the plain by a bluish vista, shining witha dead splendor resembling two ewers of bur-nished pewter. On the west the chain of Baregesstretches like a saw as far as the Pic du Midi, ahuge, ragged-edged axe, marked with patches ofsnow; on the east, lines of leaning fir-trees mountto the assault of the summits. In the south anarmy of embattled peaks, of ridges cut to thequick, squared towers, spires, perpendicular escarp-ments, lifts itself beneath a mantle of snow ; theglaciers glitter between
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