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Title: A tour through the Pyrenees
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893 Fiske, John Safford, 1838-1907, (from old catalog) tr Dore, Gustave, 1832-1883, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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gether ; it falls into an amphitheatre, from shelf toshelf, in jets that cross each other and mingle theirflakes of foam ; then under an arcade of rocks andstones, it eddies in deep basins, whose edges it haspolished, and where the grayish emerald of its
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Chap. IV. LANDSCAPES. 143 waters diffuses a soft and peaceful reflection. Sud-denly it makes a leap of thirty feet in three darkmasses, and rolls in silver spray down a funnel ofverdure. A fine dew gushes over the turf andgives life to it, and its rolling pearls sparkle as theyglide along the leaves. Our northern fields affordno notion of such vividness ; this unceasing cool-ness with this fiery sun is needed in order to paintthe vegetable robe with such a magnificent hue.I saw a great, wooded mountain-side stretch slop-ing away before me ; the noonday sun beat downupon it; the mass of white rays pierced throughthe vault of the trees ; the leaves glowed in splen-dor, either transparent or radiated. Over all thislighted slope no shadow could be distinguished ; awarm, luminous evaporation covered all, like thewhite veil of a woman. I have often since seenthis strange garb of the mountains, especially to-wards evening ; the bluish atmosphere enclosedin the gorges becomes visible ; it gro

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