. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. CASTILIAN DANCING IN THE OPEN AIR (pao;e 67) To face page 32 A BIRD^S-EYE VIEW 33 III. The Spanish Districts. DRINKING FROM THE PORRO Of the Spanish districts to whichreference is made in this book I haveno need to write at such length as I shalldo in the case of the history is in its broad outlines thehistory of the French department; likeit, they were peopled unnumbered cen-turies ago by an Iberian race, thoughless mingled, perhaps, with Celtic their sea-border came t
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. CASTILIAN DANCING IN THE OPEN AIR (pao;e 67) To face page 32 A BIRD^S-EYE VIEW 33 III. The Spanish Districts. DRINKING FROM THE PORRO Of the Spanish districts to whichreference is made in this book I haveno need to write at such length as I shalldo in the case of the history is in its broad outlines thehistory of the French department; likeit, they were peopled unnumbered cen-turies ago by an Iberian race, thoughless mingled, perhaps, with Celtic their sea-border came the Tyrianand the Greek; the Roman, the Visi-goth, and the Saracen. To them, as totheir neighbours, the avenging armiesof Charlemagne brought freedom fromIslam, and amidst them were laid at thesame time the foundations of existingsociety. Until the Treaty of the Pyreneeswas made, and Louis Quatorze pom-pously observed that the Pyrenees hadceased to exist, they formed one people, subject to one the fact that they lay upon opposite sides of the Pyreneanwall always had made a difference between them, even as fardown as the seas edge, where the haughty mountains dwindleto a tithe of their
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