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Title: Unfrequented France by river and mead and town
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836-1919
Subjects: France -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chapman
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eyond his strength. So, shutting out theprospect beneath, I allowed myself to be draggeddown somehow, never more to venture on such giddyheights. The incomparable view had been dearlypurchased. All had ended well, however, and I could oncemore enjoy the scene. When the first bewildermentof wonder and admiration is over; when the fan-tastic city no longer appears a vision, but a reality,pile upon pile of natural rock so magically cast inthe form of architecture, we realize countlessbeauties unperceived at first. The intense limpidityand crystalline clearness of the atmosphere, thebrilliance of the limestone, the no less dazzling hueof the foliage everywhere adorning it, the beautifullights and shadows of the more distant masses, lineupon line of far-off mountain chain, mere gold andviolet clouds rising above the rugged outline of theCausses, the deep, rich tones of the nearer—thesegeneral effects are not more striking than the detailsclose under our feet. About every fragment of rock
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I.K SPHINX I To/ace /•. 149 MONTPELLIER-LE-VIEUX 149 is a wealth of leaves, flowers and berries, the dog-wood and bilberry with their crimson and purpleclusters and tufts, wild lavender and thrift, whilstthe ground is carpeted with the leaf of the hepatica. We found also the pretty purple and white toad-flax,1 the handsome gold-flowered spurges,2 theelegant orange and crimson-streaked salvia,3 withothers more familiar to us. If the adorer of wildflowers is a happy person here in September, whatenchantment would await him in the spring! Likethe Russian Steppes and the African Metidja, thesewastes are then a mosaic of blossom. The foot-sure, hardy and leisurely traveller must not contenthimself with the birds-eye view of this dolomitecity just described. He should spend hours, nay,days here, if he would conscientiously explore thestone avenues, worthy to be compared to Stone-henge or Carnac; the amphitheatre, vast as that ofNimes or Orange; the fortifications, with bulwarks,towers, an

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