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A Book of the Pyrenees

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By S. Baring-Gould
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A detailed travel-topographical study of the mountain chain combines geological and physical description with regional history, local customs, and portraits of towns and valleys. It traces the triple ridge, glacial cirques and lakes, contrasts between eastern and western and northern and southern slopes, and the effects of deforestation and human economy. Ethnographic notes discuss Basque and Catalan populations, linguistic survivals and antiquities such as dolmens and cave habitations. Successive chapters survey principal towns, passes, sanctuaries and resort places, interweaving historical anecdotes, architectural and naturalistic observations, and photographic illustrations to orient the reader to landscape and local life.

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Map of the Pyrenees 1
Natives of Roussillon 4
The Cascade, Gavarnie
From a photograph by Messrs. Levy and Sons, Paris		 7
The Cathedral, Bayonne 32
The Coast, Biarritz 44
San Sebastian 48
Pas de Roland 54
The Bridge, Orthez 66
Pau 85
The Castle, Pau 92
Room of Jeanne d’Albret, Castle of Pau 100
Betharam 112
The Basilica, Lourdes 134
The Templar Church, Luz
From a photograph by Messrs. Levy and Sons, Paris		 167
La Brèche de Roland
From a photograph by Messrs. Levy and Sons, Paris		 169
Choir of S. Bertrand de Cominges 220
Cloisters, S. Bertrand de Cominges 226
La Cascade d’Enfer, Luchon 232
Le Lac d’Oo 234
Vernet les Bains 274
Château de Roussillon 286
Gateway of the Citadel, Perpignan 291
Cathedral Interior, Perpignan 294
The Cloisters of Elne 298

Note.—The illustrations are from photographs by Messrs. Neurdein frères, of Paris, except where other acknowledgment is made.