. Unfrequented France by river and mead and town. in HOHQ enwj. •s. H 5« h -aC en a SHOOTING THE RAPIDS 133 cataclysmal upheaval would seem to account forsuch disrupture rather than the infinitely slowprocesses suggested by geological history. Meantime, the little boat glides amid the verticalrocks—walls of crystal spar—shutting in the river,touching as it seems the blue heavens; peak, parapet,ramparts taking multiform hues under the shiftingclouds, now of rich amber, now dazzlingly white,now deep purple or roseate. And every one ofthese lofty shafts, so majestic of form, so varied ofhue, is r
. Unfrequented France by river and mead and town. in HOHQ enwj. •s. H 5« h -aC en a SHOOTING THE RAPIDS 133 cataclysmal upheaval would seem to account forsuch disrupture rather than the infinitely slowprocesses suggested by geological history. Meantime, the little boat glides amid the verticalrocks—walls of crystal spar—shutting in the river,touching as it seems the blue heavens; peak, parapet,ramparts taking multiform hues under the shiftingclouds, now of rich amber, now dazzlingly white,now deep purple or roseate. And every one ofthese lofty shafts, so majestic of form, so varied ofhue, is reflected in the transparent green water, thereflections softening the awful grandeur of thereality. Nothing, certes, in nature can surpass thisscene; no imagination can prefigure, no pen or penciladequately portray it. Nor can the future fortunesof the district vulgarize it! The Tarn, by reasonof its remoteness, its inaccessibility—and, to descendto material considerations, its expensiveness as anexcursion—can never, fortunately, become one ofthe c
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