A tour through the Pyrenees . AVENUE OF THE CHATEAU AT PAU. CHAPTER II. Pau is a pretty city, neat, of gay appearance ; butthe highway is paved with httle round stones, theside-walks with small sharp pebbles : so the horseswalk on the heads of nails and foot-passengers onthe points of them. From Bordeaux to Toulousesuch is the usage, such the pavement. At the endof five minutes, your feet tell you in the most intel-ligible manner that you are two hundred leaguesaway from Paris. You meet wagons loaded with wood, of rustic 86 THE VALLEY OF OSSAU. Book II. simplicity, the invention of whic
A tour through the Pyrenees . AVENUE OF THE CHATEAU AT PAU. CHAPTER II. Pau is a pretty city, neat, of gay appearance ; butthe highway is paved with httle round stones, theside-walks with small sharp pebbles : so the horseswalk on the heads of nails and foot-passengers onthe points of them. From Bordeaux to Toulousesuch is the usage, such the pavement. At the endof five minutes, your feet tell you in the most intel-ligible manner that you are two hundred leaguesaway from Paris. You meet wagons loaded with wood, of rustic 86 THE VALLEY OF OSSAU. Book II. simplicity, the invention of which goes back to thetime of Vercingetorix, but the only thing capable ofclimbing and descending the stony escarpments ofthe mountains. They are composed of the trunkof a tree placed across the axles and sustaining twooblique hurdles; they are drawn by two greatwhitish oxen, decked with a piece of hanging cloth,a net of thread upon the head and crowned withferns, all to shield them from the gray flies. Thissuo-crests food for th
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