A tour through the Pyrenees . ghtand on the left; the horse is a dirty brown and bearsthe marks of the whip. Several big pebbles in thepathway. Fog. I meditate on German philosophy. L S66 THE VALLEY OF LUZ. Booi^ III. Second hour : the view enlarges ; I perceivethe left eye of the guides horse. That eye Isblind ; it loses nothing. Third hour: the view broadens more. Viewof the hind-quarters of two horses and two tour-ists vests fifteen feet above us. Gray vests, redgirdles, berets. They swear and I swear; thatconsoles us a little. Fourth hour : joy and transports ; the guide pro-mises me for t
A tour through the Pyrenees . ghtand on the left; the horse is a dirty brown and bearsthe marks of the whip. Several big pebbles in thepathway. Fog. I meditate on German philosophy. L S66 THE VALLEY OF LUZ. Booi^ III. Second hour : the view enlarges ; I perceivethe left eye of the guides horse. That eye Isblind ; it loses nothing. Third hour: the view broadens more. Viewof the hind-quarters of two horses and two tour-ists vests fifteen feet above us. Gray vests, redgirdles, berets. They swear and I swear; thatconsoles us a little. Fourth hour : joy and transports ; the guide pro-mises me for the summit the view of a sea of clouds. Arrival: view of the sea of clouds. Unhap-pily we are in one of the clouds. Appearance thatof a vapor bath when one is in the bath. Benefits : cold in the head, rheumatism in thefeet, lumbago, freezing, such happiness as a manmight feel who had danced attendance for eighthours in an ante-chamber without fire. And this happens often ? Twice out of three times. The guides swearit does CHAPTER VIII. PLANTS AND ANIMALS. I. The beeches push high upon the declivities, evenbeyond three thousand feet. Their huge pillarsstrike down into the hollows where earth isgathered. Their roots enter into the clefts of therock, lift it, and come creeping to the surface like afamily of snakes. Their skin, white and tender inthe plains, is changed into a grayish and solid bark;their tenacious leaves shine with a vigorous green,beneath the sun which cannot penetrate live isolated, because they need space, andrange themselves at intervals one above anotherlike lines of towers. From afar, between the dullheather, their mound rises splendid with light, andsounds with its hundred thousand leaves as with somany little bells of horn. 368 THE VALLEY OE LUZ. Book III. II. But the real inhabitants of the mountains are thepines, geometrical trees, akin to the ferruginousblocks hewn by the primitive eruptions. Thevegetation of the plains unfolds itself in u
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