Regiment of Granada (three batts.) 1,183 at Port Mahon. Regiment of Soria (three batts.) 1,381 ” Regiment of Borbon (three batts.) 1,570 at Palma. Swiss Regiment of Beschard (two batts.) 2,121 ” Light Infantry of Barcelona, No. 2 1,341 at Port Mahon. ” ” Aragon, No. 2. 1,267 at Palma. Militia Battalion of Majorca 604 ” 6th Hussars (_Husares Españoles_) 680 ” Artillery 500 ” and Port Mahon. ------ 10,647 The geography of Catalonia, as we have had occasion to relate in an earlier chapter, is rather complicated. Not only is the principality cut off by its mountains from the rest of Spain--it faces towards the sea, while its neighbour Aragon faces towards the Ebro--but it is divided by its numerous cross-ranges into a number of isolated valleys, between which communication is very difficult. Its coast-plain along the Mediterranean is generally narrow, and often cut across by spurs which run down from the mountains of the inland till they strike the sea. Except on the eastern side of the principality, where it touches Aragon in the direction of Lerida, there is no broad expanse of level ground within its borders: much the greater part of its surface is upland and mountain. Catalonia may be divided into four regions: the first is the district at the foot of the Eastern Pyrenees, drained by the Fluvia and the Ter. This narrow corner is called the Ampurdam; it contains all the frontier-fortresses which protect the province on the side of France. Rosas commands the pass along the sea-shore, Figueras the main road from Perpignan, which runs some twenty miles further inland. A little further south both these roads meet, and are blocked by the strong city of Gerona, the capital of all this region and its most important strategical point. South of Gerona a cross-range divides the Ampurdam from the coast-plain of Central Catalonia; the defile through this range is covered by the small fortified town of Hostalrich, but there is an alternative route from Gerona to Barcelona along the coast by Blanes and Arens de Mar.