Identifier: tourthroughpyren00tain (find matches)
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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needed to escape the hostility of allthose bristling points, and of so many yawninggulfs which draw on the passer in order to dashhim to atoms. Soon the road seems brought to an end ; wallafter wall, the serried rocks obstruct every outlet;still you advance, zigzag, among rounded blocks,along a falling stairway; the wind sweeps downthese, howling. No sign of life, no herbage ; every-where the horrible nakedness and the chill of win-ter. Squat rocks lean beetling over the precipice;others project their heads to meet one another ;between them the eye plunges into dark gulfs whosebottom it cannot reach. The violent juttings of allparts advance and rise, piercing the air ; down there,at the bottom, they spring forward in lines, climb-ing over one another, in heaps, bristling against thesky their hedge of pikes. Suddenly in this terriblebattalion a cleft is opened ; the Maladetta springsup like a great spectre; forests of shivered pineswind about its foot; a girdle of black rocks cm- w—
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Chap. V. LUCHON. 505 bosses its arid breast, and the glaciers make it acrown.

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