. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. ain, and my spirits rose with thegrateful feel of the stirrup irons, as I climbed into the bestof all seats in the world. The mule Chatto was, I wasinformed, an aristocrat in his way, being the habitual mountof Monseigneur the Prince-Bishop of Urgell, and of HisExcellency the French Viguier of Andorra—an animal aliveto international amenities and the requirements of distin-guished travellers. Thus was I appropriately launched upon a little countrywhich for eleven hundred years has retained its independen
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. ain, and my spirits rose with thegrateful feel of the stirrup irons, as I climbed into the bestof all seats in the world. The mule Chatto was, I wasinformed, an aristocrat in his way, being the habitual mountof Monseigneur the Prince-Bishop of Urgell, and of HisExcellency the French Viguier of Andorra—an animal aliveto international amenities and the requirements of distin-guished travellers. Thus was I appropriately launched upon a little countrywhich for eleven hundred years has retained its independence,thanks to its dual suzerainty and its own extraordinary in-accessibility. Chatto carried me well up the grassy Col, which was stillhidden in the mist and splashed with snow, and it was nottill we had reached its summit, 7,500 feet above the sea, thata first touch of warmth came glowing through from Spain,and the mist began to lift, yielding the most tantalizing andwonderful glimpses of a world of dark iron-hued peaks andwhite fields of snow, until at last the whole envious curtain. THE WASHING POOL, ANDORRA
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