. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . S. Michel de Cuxa, but theproprietor wanted 10,000. How many of these carv-ings are still to be seen in the district I cannot 1704, when the abbey was united to the Bishopricof Elne, nine arches were still standing. The vegetation in this valley is most luxuriant. AtPrades I saw a bay-tree as high as a house. AtPerpignan were great bushes of cytisus 9 or 10 feethigh, and other flowering shrubs and creepers insimilar proportion. Irrigation is managed most intelli-gently, full advantage being ta
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . S. Michel de Cuxa, but theproprietor wanted 10,000. How many of these carv-ings are still to be seen in the district I cannot 1704, when the abbey was united to the Bishopricof Elne, nine arches were still standing. The vegetation in this valley is most luxuriant. AtPrades I saw a bay-tree as high as a house. AtPerpignan were great bushes of cytisus 9 or 10 feethigh, and other flowering shrubs and creepers insimilar proportion. Irrigation is managed most intelli-gently, full advantage being taken of the variation inthe level of the ground. Wherever one goes thepleasant rushing of water accompanies one, and thesight of the splashing of the overplus, either runningdown walls or as little waterfalls, gives an impressionof coolness. Above S. Michel, towards Taurinya, the road runsbetween apple-trees, which were in blossom. A tram-line on the Telfer system, in connection with iron minesabove the latter place, runs to near Prades ; two chains* In 1911 this arcade was still in DOOR AT S. MICHKL DE CUXA. To face page 266. TAURINYA 267 and two rails upon which the little cars travel inopposite directions, looking as if they wandered attheir own sweet will. The ore with which they wereloaded was dark purple. The view up the valley aswe approached Taurinya was magnificent ; the greatmass of the Canigou was a fine blue set off by the snowwith which it was capped, and deepened by the woodswith which it was partly clothed. In the middledistance the houses of Taurinya, crowned by the churchtower, made a warm, reddish - purple mass, relievedby the lighter colour of the sunlight, where it caughton wall, angle, or roof. Below was a fine mass oftrees bursting into leaf, beneath the shade of whichwe found the washerwomen plying their laboriouscalling. In front the road glared in the sunlight, butthe ripple of water which ran down a wall by the sideof the road pleasantly modifie
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