. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. ON THE ROUTE TO BOUILLOUSE, THE CARLITTEIN THE DISTANCE {page 316). THE NEW LAKE, BOUILLOUSE {page 316) To face page 316 you were dropped here suddenly, that this was a corner ofdensely-peopled industrious France ; and there is nothingin common between it and the wide, windy plain of theRoussillon, the land of olives, of the cypress and the vine,which spreads out a few miles lower down, enriched by thesesame waters. This romantic valley owes its strange contrasts andpeculiar type of beauty to causes whic
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. ON THE ROUTE TO BOUILLOUSE, THE CARLITTEIN THE DISTANCE {page 316). THE NEW LAKE, BOUILLOUSE {page 316) To face page 316 you were dropped here suddenly, that this was a corner ofdensely-peopled industrious France ; and there is nothingin common between it and the wide, windy plain of theRoussillon, the land of olives, of the cypress and the vine,which spreads out a few miles lower down, enriched by thesesame waters. This romantic valley owes its strange contrasts andpeculiar type of beauty to causes which lie upon its air of loneliness and of great wooded solitudes is due to itsgreat elevation, which forbids cultivation. For more thanhalf the year it lies buried under heavy snow. Its wild andrugged character is due to the steep slope of the mountains,which here descend rapidly towards the plain (the Tet falls9,500 feet in eighty miles), and to the fact that in bygonetimes a great glacier took its implacable course through thisvalley, working its mighty will upon all that stood in its both sides of the little foaming, tumbling riv
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