. A tour through the Pyrenees . - village, with the taint of hotels,white and regular, cafes and signs, ranged bystages upon the arid coast; for grass, patches ofpoor starveling turf; for trees, frail tamarisks whichcling shivering to the earth ; for harbor, a beachand two empty creeks. The smaller conceals inits sandy recess two barks without masts, withoutsails, to all appearance abandoned. The waters consume the coast; great pieces ofearth and stone, hardened by their shock, fifty feetaway from the shore, lift their brown and yellowspine, worn, raked, gnawed, jagged, scooped out 36 THE COAS
. A tour through the Pyrenees . - village, with the taint of hotels,white and regular, cafes and signs, ranged bystages upon the arid coast; for grass, patches ofpoor starveling turf; for trees, frail tamarisks whichcling shivering to the earth ; for harbor, a beachand two empty creeks. The smaller conceals inits sandy recess two barks without masts, withoutsails, to all appearance abandoned. The waters consume the coast; great pieces ofearth and stone, hardened by their shock, fifty feetaway from the shore, lift their brown and yellowspine, worn, raked, gnawed, jagged, scooped out 36 THE COAST. Book I. by the wave, resembling a troop of stranded billow barks or bellows in their hollow bowels,in their deep yawning jaws ; then, after they haveengulfed it, they vomit it forth in jets and foamagainst the lofty shining waves that forever return. THE riERCED KULl. to the assault. Shells and polished pebbles are in-crusted upon their head. Here furzes have rootedtheir patient stems and the confusion of their thorns ;this hairy mantle is the only one capable of cling-ing to their flanks, and of standing out against thespray of the sea. To the left, a train of ploughed and emaciatedrocks stretches out in a promontory as far as an Chap. III. BIARRITZ.—SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ. 37 arcade of hardened beach, which the high tideshave opened, and whence on three sides the eyelooks down upon the ocean. Under the whisthngnorth wind it bristles with violet waves ; the pass-ing clouds marble it with still more sombre spots ;as far as the eye can reach is a sickly agitationof wan waves, chopping and disjointed, a sort ofmoving skin that trembles, wrenched by an inwardfever; occasionally a streak of foam crossing themmarks a more violent shock. Here and there, be-tween the intervals of the clouds, the light cutsout a few sea-green fields upon the
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