. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. -nots—amidstexuberant cornfields, and through wild and wooded defiles,where the great firs come down from their high mountainhomes to its very edge and lean across its foaming waters. This is the immemorial highway, unchanged since thedays of Charlemagne ; and the life that moves along it isthe Hfe of Andorra. One passes the women labouring in thepotato-fields—a plain unbeautiful race; the children playingby the wayside ; the shepherd in his red Catalan cap, withhis flock tinkhng about him ; the man on a
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. -nots—amidstexuberant cornfields, and through wild and wooded defiles,where the great firs come down from their high mountainhomes to its very edge and lean across its foaming waters. This is the immemorial highway, unchanged since thedays of Charlemagne ; and the life that moves along it isthe Hfe of Andorra. One passes the women labouring in thepotato-fields—a plain unbeautiful race; the children playingby the wayside ; the shepherd in his red Catalan cap, withhis flock tinkhng about him ; the man on a journey, withhis hobnailed boots strung over his shoulder, and lightcanvas espadrilles upon his feet; the Spanish CtLve in his too-elegant soutane and black beaver hat; the field-labourer behindhis ass, carrying earth from the river to some stony fieldhigh up on the mountain-side ; the muleteer with his gaily-caparisoned beast, bright with red and yellow woollen ballsand brass and coloured metal-work, the most picturesque—the only picturesque—creature on the road. 443«Si^ .NTA COLOMA, ANDORRA {page 295)
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