A tour through the Pyrenees . _ i ^u-^_5 grow dark as you enter; it is only a strip of sky thatcan be seen above the head. On the right, a range of giant cones rises intorelief against the intense azure; their bellies crowdone upon another and protrude in rounded masses;but their lofty peaks swing upward with a dash, with. T!OAD TO )i:s. Chap. V. EA UX-CHA UDES. 173 a orisrantic sort of flieht, towards the sublime domewhence streams the day. The light of August fallson the stony escarpments, upon the broken walls,where the rock, damasked and eng-raven, p-leamslike an oriental cuir
A tour through the Pyrenees . _ i ^u-^_5 grow dark as you enter; it is only a strip of sky thatcan be seen above the head. On the right, a range of giant cones rises intorelief against the intense azure; their bellies crowdone upon another and protrude in rounded masses;but their lofty peaks swing upward with a dash, with. T!OAD TO )i:s. Chap. V. EA UX-CHA UDES. 173 a orisrantic sort of flieht, towards the sublime domewhence streams the day. The light of August fallson the stony escarpments, upon the broken walls,where the rock, damasked and eng-raven, p-leamslike an oriental cuirass. Leprous spots of moss arethere incrusted; stems of dried box dangle wretch-edly in the crannies; but they are lost sight of insuch heroic nakedness: the ruddy or blackenedcolossi display themselves in triumph in the splen-dor of the heavens. Between two channelled granite towers stretchesthe little village of Eaux-Chandes. But who, here,pays any attention to the village? All thought istaken up by the mountains. The eastern chain,abruptly cut off, drops perpendicularly like the wallof a citadel; at the summit, a thousand feet abovethe highway, are esplanades expanding in forestsand meadows, a crown green and moist, whencecascades ooze forth by the hundred. They windbroken and flaky along the breast of the mount
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