. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . arch is round, and there is no tympanum, butabove the door to the right is a panel, with a roughfigure of S. Peter, with key, crozier, and triangularmitre, blessing and holding on his left knee a closedbook, with an inscription in a mixture of Latin andRomance much abbreviated, which appears to give thename of Joannes de la Casa as master of the work inletters of the thirteenth century. It runs : p(etrus) p(r)i(n)cEPS REGNICE LORv(m) lOA(nnes) DELACASAFOMAES(tre)DE LA OBRA The figure retains t
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . arch is round, and there is no tympanum, butabove the door to the right is a panel, with a roughfigure of S. Peter, with key, crozier, and triangularmitre, blessing and holding on his left knee a closedbook, with an inscription in a mixture of Latin andRomance much abbreviated, which appears to give thename of Joannes de la Casa as master of the work inletters of the thirteenth century. It runs : p(etrus) p(r)i(n)cEPS REGNICE LORv(m) lOA(nnes) DELACASAFOMAES(tre)DE LA OBRA The figure retains traces of colour. The interior hasa pointed waggon-vault ; at the springing is a littlecornice, with palmettes and animals in a row, withgrotesque heads on a slope. The hillside bears a seriesof stations of the Cross amid its fir-trees. The sceneryof the whole of the upper portion of the valley is fine, 24 i86 THE VALLEY OF THE LEZ and in some of the lateral valleys are rich mines of leadand zinc. The slopes of the hills descend steeply onboth sides, with water running everywhere. The vista. BETHMALESE COSTUMES. is closed by the Pic Blanc, on which was a good deal ofsnow, justifying its name. From the side mountainsclouds stole forth, becoming more visible as they BETHMALESE COSTUMES 187 mounted higher. The hills were a pink-purple, andmany fruit-trees in blossom added light and gaiety tothe scene, relieved by the fresh green of the growinggrass. The Valley of Bethmale opens from oppositeOurjoux, one of the few places which still retains adistinctive costume, though the women only wear iton fete days and Sundays, on which latter day peoplevisit the place to see them come out of church afterMass. A few may sometimes be seen at St. Girons onmarket-days, and the costume attracts the eye at onceby its strangeness of form and vivid colour, bringingremembrance of medieval days, when costume wasbeautiful, and fashion did not decree constant church at Ourjoux is known as Les
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