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S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould. A Book of the Pyrenees
A Book of the Pyrenees
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE PYRENEES
CHAPTER I. THE PYRENEAN CHAIN
CHAPTER II. GASCONY
CHAPTER III. BAYONNE
CHAPTER IV. S. JEAN-PIED-DE-PORT
CHAPTER V. ORTHEZ
CHAPTER VI. PAU
CHAPTER VII. OLORON
CHAPTER VIII. THE VAL D’OSSAU
CHAPTER IX. LOURDES
CHAPTER X. THE LAVEDAN
CHAPTER XI. LUZ AND CAUTERETS
CHAPTER XII. TARBES
CHAPTER XIII. BAGNÈRES
CHAPTER XIV. THE VAL D’AURE
CHAPTER XV. LUCHON
CHAPTER XVI. COUSERANS
CHAPTER XVII. FOIX
CHAPTER XVIII. LA CERDAGNE
CHAPTER XIX. THE CANIGOU
CHAPTER XX. PERPIGNAN
INDEX
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S. Baring-Gould
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Of the mountains, undoubtedly the Pic de Midi d’Ossau is the most conspicuous, not on account of its height, for it attains only to 8700 feet, but from its form, resembling a dog’s tooth, cleft near the summit, glittering with snow, and rising in singular majesty above the Val d’Ossau, where the mountains fall back respectfully to allow a full view of its majesty. There are many noble mountains—the Pic de Midi de Bigorre, 9436 feet; the Vignemale, 10,820 feet; Mont Perdu, 11,168 feet; Maladetta of the same height almost to a foot; but these last hold themselves screened behind the inferior but snow-clad northern range. The Canigou, however, belongs to this latter range, and is afflicted with none of the retiring qualities of the crystalline range. It steps boldly, ostentatiously forth above the plain of Roussillon, and for long was supposed to be the highest peak of the Pyrenees, though actually reaching only to 8360 feet. M. Élisée Reclus says of it:—
“Like Etna, the Canigou is one of those mountains which rise vigorous as masters over a wide stretch of country. From below this grey pyramid, cleft with ravines, streaked with detritus between salient ribs of rock, of every tint, is not a whit less striking in aspect than the Sicilian volcano.”
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