Along France's river of romance: . ,! mif^m§;^^^^ :;•?:;..».., ?? Old farm near Coubon been doing a thousand years ago. The curious,rather sinister building is one of the most interest-ing that I can recall in Haute Loire. Further on,past the farm, the river-bed widens out still more,leaving a great expanse of stones, then rushes downa slope into a deep reach formed by a barrage. Onthe left-hand side a deep channel has been made,to work a large new mill, and Brives can be seen inthe distance. At Brives are two arches of an old bridgewhich was destroyed by one of the celebrated crues. LE PUY EN
Along France's river of romance: . ,! mif^m§;^^^^ :;•?:;..».., ?? Old farm near Coubon been doing a thousand years ago. The curious,rather sinister building is one of the most interest-ing that I can recall in Haute Loire. Further on,past the farm, the river-bed widens out still more,leaving a great expanse of stones, then rushes downa slope into a deep reach formed by a barrage. Onthe left-hand side a deep channel has been made,to work a large new mill, and Brives can be seen inthe distance. At Brives are two arches of an old bridgewhich was destroyed by one of the celebrated crues. LE PUY EN VELAY 45 and a good modern bridge which bears the are indefatigable laundresses beating their soapy. The bridge below Brives washing-boards, and little flat punts, like boxes, con-trolled by long natural poles. The river is broadhere, and banked up to make navigable reaches; while 46 THE LOIRE below the new bridge, on the right-hand side, I sawactually a rowing-boat. Save for these few hundredyards, one could not see where it was to be used; forexcept just here the river was impossible even for acanoe. About a kilometre below Brives is a charmingmediaeval stone bridge, under which the water runsswift and deep. It leads across to an old Carthusianmonastery, and is so narrow that there is barelyroom for a cart and a foot-passenger to pass oneanother on it. Climbing up towards Le Puy from theold bridge, one saw from the highest point of the roadan extraordinary panorama of hills and mountains,one rising behind the other, each peak clearly outlinedand of an odd, individual shape suggesting that ithad been modelled intentionally by the thumb of somegiant artificer. It seemed impossible th
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