. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. arranged for theevening dance in the village ; in the brown fields won fromthe stony soil the ploughman drives his cattle with loudvoice ; upon the mountain-sides the shepherd plays his flute,while his flock wander under the care of his faithful dog;and at times, as though to remind one that life is not alto-gether a pastoral idyll, such immemorial charms as these arebroken by a sudden subterranean thunder as of volcanicforces, where the miners toil in the bowels of the hardencompassing hills. There must
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. arranged for theevening dance in the village ; in the brown fields won fromthe stony soil the ploughman drives his cattle with loudvoice ; upon the mountain-sides the shepherd plays his flute,while his flock wander under the care of his faithful dog;and at times, as though to remind one that life is not alto-gether a pastoral idyll, such immemorial charms as these arebroken by a sudden subterranean thunder as of volcanicforces, where the miners toil in the bowels of the hardencompassing hills. There must be many a mountain road in the Pyreneeswhich can rival in some of these details the old road toCasteil, but few which can lay claim like it to a placein history ; for the destination of this road is the abbeyof St. Martin of the Canigou, which for 800 years wasfamous throughout the Catalan world. Up this road, whichcan have altered little since then, the Count Wilfred rodewith his knights and men-at-arms on a November day in theyear loog, when the Bishop of Elne came to consecrate his. OLD VERNET—SUMMER (page 66)
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