=St. Lizier.=--A Gallo-Roman town now shrunk and decayed, but very picturesque. Stands on a steep hill, crowned with Episcopal Palace, surrounded by walls which have Roman bases. Romanesque church, with beautiful cloisters and Roman stones built into apse. Medieval bridge over river. =St. Girons.=--A busy little town; church rebuilt in 1857; thirteenth-century château, now Palais de Justice, not very interesting. =Le Mas-d’Azil.=--A small town near the remarkable limestone cavern called the Grotte du Mas-d’Azil, through which the road runs. =Pailhès.=--Village in beautiful surroundings, with medieval château on hill above. =Pamiers.=--A busy town, with iron foundries on the River Ariège; cathedral, 1658-1689, with tower of fourteenth century; vast fortified fourteenth-century west front to N.D. du Camp; Church of the Cordeliers, sixteenth century; old houses in bad repair. [Illustration: A PICTURESQUE CORNER OF ST. LIZIER. The snow clad Pyrenees appear above the roofs of the steep street.] =Foix.=--Romantically situated town in triangular valley, with the castle of the Counts of Foix on an isolated rock in the centre. =Mirepoix.=--Exceedingly picturesque little town, with arcaded square and much quaint carved woodwork; old gateway and Gothic church of great charm. =Fanjeaux.=--A village romantically situated on a hill, with thirteenth-century church. =Montréal.=--Another place in a similar situation, with magnificent views and picturesque streets; church, fourteenth century. St. Gaudens gets its name from a boy of thirteen years who was martyred in 475 for holding to the Christian faith under the persecution of Euric, King of the Visigoths. It is a dusty little town, with a busy market-place and a beautiful Romanesque church, dating from the beginning of the twelfth century, when the place began to grow prosperous with the establishment of a college of canons at the martyr’s tomb. The church was formerly fortified, and the upper part of the Romanesque tower has been rebuilt by Laffolye, who restored the sculpture of the small tower door of the same period, the carving having been badly mutilated by Montgomery’s Huguenots. One enters by a fine Flamboyant doorway, and finds a very dark interior, with walls hung with old tapestries, and a horrible atmosphere, suggesting an entire lack of ventilation. It is worth while, however, to endure this polluted air in order to examine the finely carved capitals, showing Biblical scenes, including a very interesting Nebuchadnezzar in the fields. The sacristy, with a vaulted roof, and the carved choir-stalls should also be seen. [Illustration: No. 15. ST. GAUDENS TO CARCASSONNE.] The road follows the Garonne, and on nearing St. Martory runs close beside it, with a great wall of orange-coloured rock on the left. ST. MARTORY