Between these two cities, for a distance approaching one hundred and eighty miles, there is scarce a highway over the mountain barrier along which a wheeled vehicle may travel with comfort, and the tiny Republic of Andorra, though recently threatened with the advent of the railway, is still isolated and unspoiled from the tourist influence, as well as from undue intercourse with either France or Spain, which envelop its few square miles of area as does the Atlantic Ocean the Azores. To-day Elne is no longer the seat of a bishop, the see of Rousillon having been transferred to Perpignan in the fourteenth century, after having endured from the time of the first bishop, Domnus, since the sixth century. There has been left as a reminder a very interesting and beautiful smaller cathedral church of the early eleventh century. Alterations and restorations, mostly of the fifteenth century, have changed its material aspect but little, and it still remains a highly captivating monumental glory; which opinion is further sustained from the fact that the _Commission des Monuments Historiques_ has had the fabric under its own special care for many years. It is decidedly a minor edifice, and its parts are as unimpressive as its lack of magnitude; still, for all that, the church-lovers will find much crude beauty in this Romanesque basilica-planned church, with its dependant cloister of a very beautiful flowing Gothic of the fifteenth century. The chief artistic treasures of this ancient cathedral, aside from its elegant cloister, are a _bénitier_ in white marble; a portal of some pretensions, leading from the cathedral to its cloister; a fourteen-century tomb, of some considerable artistic worth; and a _bas-relief_, called the "Tomb of Constans." There is little else of note, either in or about the cathedral, and the town itself has the general air of a glory long past. [Illustration: ST. JUST _de NARBONNE_] XV ST. JUST DE NARBONNE The ancient province of Narbonenses--afterward comprising Languedoc--had for its capital what is still the city of Narbonne. One may judge of the former magnificence of Narbonne by the following lines of _Sidonius Apollinaris_: "Salve Narbo potens Salubritate, Qui Urbè et Rure simul bonus Videris, Muris, Civibus, ambitu, Tabernis, Portis, Porticibus, Foro, Theatro, Delubris, Capitoliis, Monetis, Thermis, Arcubus, Harreis, Macellis, Pratis, Fontibus, Insulus, Salinis, Stagnis, Flumine, Merce, Ponte, Ponto, Unus qui jure venere divos Lenoeum, Cererum, Palem, Minervam, Spicis, Palmite, Poscius, Tapetis." Narbonne is still mighty and healthful, if one is to judge from the activities of the present day; is picturesque and pleasing, and far more comfortably disposed than many cities with a more magnificently imposing situation. The city remained faithful to the Romans until the utmost decay of the western empire, at which time (462) it was delivered to the Goths.