. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. pleasant drive therethrough the perfumedwoods, and it takes onequite away from Mont Louis and its bastions, and the bareuplands about the Col de la Perche, into a country of greenpasturelands and running waters and heavy shade ; a countrywhich harks back far beyond the days of Louis Quatorze, forit was owned, when Edward the Confessor still sat upon thethrone of England, by the Benedictine monks of St. their hands these pasturelands and forests remained forseven hundred years, and it is to the
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. pleasant drive therethrough the perfumedwoods, and it takes onequite away from Mont Louis and its bastions, and the bareuplands about the Col de la Perche, into a country of greenpasturelands and running waters and heavy shade ; a countrywhich harks back far beyond the days of Louis Quatorze, forit was owned, when Edward the Confessor still sat upon thethrone of England, by the Benedictine monks of St. their hands these pasturelands and forests remained forseven hundred years, and it is to their care that we owe theirsurvival to this day. Some time in the eleventh century, to judge by theantique features of the Black Virgin which still survives,a chapel was built here, and the people came from allover the country-side to be healed of their ills. Thelegend of the country-side tells of the miraculous findingof the statue, buried under the soil, near a fountain, throughthe persistence of a bull, which dug at the earth with hishorns and would not be driven away. The fame of the. FORET DE LA MATTE FONT ROMEU AND THE UPLANDS OF THE TET 315 Virgin grew, and ever since, Font Romeu has been a place ofannual pilgrimage, to which French and Spaniards alikeresort. Near the hermitage there is a Calvary on a hill, withtwelve chapels of the Cross depicting the closing scenes inthe Passion of Christ. Upon the pictures all sorts of peoplehave scribbled their names, evidently blind to their tragic pur-port ; so callous and accustomed does the world become tothings which in everyday life would move it to pity andsympathy. The place of the Calvary is beautiful with lightand shade and green pastures shining vividly under the darktrees, and the air is laden with the music of vast herds ofmoving cattle which come up here in summer from thecommunes to which the woods belong. The view thatexpands from the platform of the Calvary is one of the mostbeautiful in all this country; reaching far
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