Switzerland, the South of France, and the Pyrenees in M.DCCC.XXX.Constable and Company, 1831 |
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Adour agreeable Amphitheatre Argeles Arreau ascend auberge Avignon Bagnères de Bigorre Bagnères de Louchon banks Baréges baths Bayonne beautiful Bieretz Bigorre Blois Bourdeaux breakfast Breche de Roland bridge Cagots castle Cauterets celebrated charming Chateau claret cottages Dauphiny defile delightful descended dinner elevation England English excellent feet fertile French Garonne Gavarnie Gave grapes growths hundred inhabitants interesting journey lake land leagues Loire Louis Louis XI Lourdes Lyons meadows miles milk Montpelier morning moun mountains Nantes Narbonne neighbourhood never Nismes passed Perpignan Petrarch Pic du Midi picturesque Pierrefitte pleasant produce Pyrenean Pyrenees reached recollect residence Rhone river road rock Saumur scarcely scene scenery seen side South of France Spain spot St Sauveur stream sublimity summit Switzerland table d'hôte tains Tarbes Thoulouse tion Tours town traveller valley of Campan Vaucluse village vines vineyards walk waters wines of Medoc wood
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Page 127 - Tarbes ; they either wear the capulet or short hood of scarlet, or the capuchin, a cloak of black, both thrown over the head and shoulders, and most commonly they have sandals upon the feet, excepting in the mountains, where the peasant generally walks. with naked feet. The mountaineers of the Pyrenees are a handsomer race than the Alpine peasantry, but the dress of the former is less adapted to display the figure. " That besetting sin of the Swiss — greed, I have never found among the Pyrenees....
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