The modifications which the same patois undergoes in neighboring localities is not less curious though of course not so radical. Roughly speaking it may be said that the same patois is spoken from Montpellier to Bordeaux and from Toulouse well up into the centre of France, which embraces the region where prevailed the Langue d’oc from which the present patois is derived. But, while a peasant could make himself understood throughout this wide territory, his ear would often be perplexed by more than one strange word and phrase. I was once told on the Riviera that the patois of Menton differed considerably from that of Nice and that this was particularly the case before the construction of the Corniche road and the railway, when a denizen of the former place could reach the latter city only by doubling Cape Martin under sail. I do not know how true this statement is, but I believe it to be correct, after a superficial study on these same lines which I have just made in the Department of the Tarn, one of the most isolated portions of Upper Languedoc. I find that the patois of towns as near together, as are New York, Newark, Patterson, Nyack and Tarrytown, for example, differs, not, perhaps, in its construction but in its vocabulary. Let me give some examples. Thus, potato, which is _truffet_ at Cordes, becomes _truffo_ at Castres. _Patano_, the word employed in the South East end of the Department is also heard at Castres, but never at Cordes, which is in the North West end of the Department, Castres being about in the centre. Dog is _cagnot_ and _cô_ at Cordes, and _gous_ at Castres. (At Montpellier, in a contiguous Department it is _tschi_, while at Pau they say _can_, which approaches very near the Latin.) Pig is _pourcel_ at Castres and _tessou_ at Cordes. Broom _engranicro_ at Castres and _balatso_ at Cordes. I have also noted the following difference between the Tarn patois and that of Pau. The _f_ of the former always becomes an aspirated _h_ in the latter. Thus, _femo_, woman (Castres) is _henno_ at Pau; _fourco_, pitchfork (Castres) _hourco_ (Pau); _foun_ fountain (Castres) _houn_ (Pau).