A tour through the Pyrenees . Chap. VI. GA VARNIE. 2>Z9 falling in. A few points resisted, and their embat-tled turrets are drawn out in line on the crest; buttheir layers are dislocated, their sides creviced, theirpoints jagged. The whole shattered ridge them the rock fails suddenly in a livingand still bleeding wound. The splinters are lowerdown, strewn over the declivity. The tumbled. rocks are sustained one upon another, and man to-day passes in safety amidst the disaster. But whata day was that of the ruin ! It is not very ancient,perhaps of the sixth century, and the y
A tour through the Pyrenees . Chap. VI. GA VARNIE. 2>Z9 falling in. A few points resisted, and their embat-tled turrets are drawn out in line on the crest; buttheir layers are dislocated, their sides creviced, theirpoints jagged. The whole shattered ridge them the rock fails suddenly in a livingand still bleeding wound. The splinters are lowerdown, strewn over the declivity. The tumbled. rocks are sustained one upon another, and man to-day passes in safety amidst the disaster. But whata day was that of the ruin ! It is not very ancient,perhaps of the sixth century, and the year of theterrible earthquake told of by Gregory of Tours,If a man could without perishing have seen the 340 THE VALLEY OF LUZ. Boor III. summits split, totter and fall, the two seas of rockcome bounding into the gorge, meet one anotherand grind each other amidst a shower of sparks,he would have looked upon the grandest spectacleever seen by human eyes. On the west, a perpendicular mole, crannied likean old ruin, lifts itself straight up towards the leprosy of yellowish moss has incrusted its pores,and has clothed it all over with a sinister livid robe upon this parched stone has a splen-did effect. Nothing is uglier than the chalky flintsthat are drawn from the quarry ; just dug up, theyseem cold and damp in their whitish shroud ; theyare not used to the sun ; they make a contras
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