Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 52061-h.htm or 52061-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52061/52061-h/52061-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52061/52061-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/bookofpyrenees00bariuoft A BOOK OF THE PYRENEES * * * * * * BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE THE TRAGEDY OF THE CÆSARS STRANGE SURVIVALS SONGS OF THE WEST A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG OLD COUNTRY LIFE YORKSHIRE ODDITIES OLD ENGLISH FAIRY TALES A BOOK OF GHOSTS THE VICAR OF MORWENSTOW A BOOK OF NURSERY SONGS AND RHYMES A BOOK OF FAIRY TALES AND (_Uniform with this Volume_) A BOOK OF BRITTANY A BOOK OF CORNWALL A BOOK OF DEVON A BOOK OF NORTH WALES A BOOK OF SOUTH WALES A BOOK OF THE RHINE A BOOK OF THE RIVIERA * * * * * * [Illustration: LA VALLÉE DU LYS] A BOOK OF THE PYRENEES by S. BARING-GOULD Author of “A Book of Brittany,” “A Book of the Riviera,” etc. IT IS THE SOUL THAT SEES; THE OUTWARD EYES PRESENT THE OBJECT, BUT THE MIND DESCRIES. _LONGFELLOW_ With Twenty-Five Illustrations Methuen & Co. 36 Essex Street W.C. London First Published in 1907 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE PYRENEAN CHAIN 1 II. GASCONY 15 III. BAYONNE 30 IV. S. JEAN-PIED-DE-PORT 51 V. ORTHEZ 66 VI. PAU 85 VII. OLORON 114 VIII. THE VAL D’OSSAU 124 IX. LOURDES 134 X. THE LAVEDAN 152 XI. LUZ AND CAUTERETS 162 XII. TARBES 175 XIII. BAGNÈRES 189 XIV. THE VAL D’AURE 201 XV. LUCHON 214 XVI. COUSERANS 236 XVII. FOIX 245 XVIII. LA CERDAGNE 264 XIX. THE CANIGOU 272