. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. BELLVER {page 309). THE FOREST OF FANGES {page 324) To face page 310 BELLVER TO PUIGCERDA 311 The Kings Highway, as we bumped along it, provedshamefully bad except for a mile or two at each end. Itfollowed no direct line, but wound in and out amongst thevillages; and from time to time we stopped to give themules a rest and the driver an opportunity of a gulletful ofwine and the gossip of the little inns. At the Col de Saig itreached its climax of beauty. The mules, with their fortybells ringing, climbed
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. BELLVER {page 309). THE FOREST OF FANGES {page 324) To face page 310 BELLVER TO PUIGCERDA 311 The Kings Highway, as we bumped along it, provedshamefully bad except for a mile or two at each end. Itfollowed no direct line, but wound in and out amongst thevillages; and from time to time we stopped to give themules a rest and the driver an opportunity of a gulletful ofwine and the gossip of the little inns. At the Col de Saig itreached its climax of beauty. The mules, with their fortybells ringing, climbed slowly up the steep hill which dividesthe Cerdagne from the plain of Bellver. About us and beforeus lay the good brown earth, deepened in colour by therecent rain and marked with the long furrows of the the skyline the superb cattle of the country, brownand velvety black about the shoulders, were moving slowly,the steam blowing visibly this cold bright morning fromtheir nostrils, the ploughmans lithe figure behind; andtowering high above them, against the blue sky, the snowywhite mass of th
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