Houeillès, the next village, has a small thirteenth-century church of dark stone, with a fortified tower. There is a great staircase turret, and the tower opens into the church through a Romanesque arch with a toothed moulding. At intervals there are large clearings in the forest, with only a tree here and there, and pools of water appear by the roadside. The lake shown on the map, near the modern château of Lubbon, is scarcely visible from the road, which continues to keep for long distances in a perfectly straight line. The white crosses frequently to be seen roughly painted on farmyard gates, where they appear in the forest, suggest that ancient superstitions linger in the dim forest glades of a country still in the thraldom of a religion that encourages belief in supernatural visitations. ST. JUSTIN is an old and very picturesque little town. It was greatly damaged by Montgomery in 1569, but has still some remains of its ramparts perched above the road. The thirteenth-century church stands near a monastery of the Templars. It is here that one notices the first of the Basque type of house, with the wall of its gable-end deeply recessed to form a shady verandah with a balcony to the upper floor. The ordinary old cottage of timber-framing still appears among these of a more southern type, designed for comfort during great heat. More perspectives through the forest succeed, and bring one to the rather uninteresting town of MONT-DE-MARSAN There is a quaint view of houses built above the river, and inside the big rectangular building of the old barracks stands the lower part of the keep of Nou-li-Bos, built in the fourteenth century by Gaston Phœbus, Count of Foix, to terrify the inhabitants. BORDEAUX TO TOULOUSE AND PAMIERS OR CARCASSONNE Those who land their cars at Bordeaux can (1) pick up the route at Casteljaloux (86 kil.) or at Mont-de-Marsan (129 kil.), or (2) they can go to Toulouse (262 kil.) and join the route at Pamiers (322 kil.) or Carcassonne (364 kil.). _See the large folding map at the end of the volume._ Kil. Miles. 1. =Bordeaux= to Podensac =31= 19¼ =Podensac= to Langon =14= 8¾ =Langon= to Casteljaloux =41= 25½ or =Langon= to Mont-de-Marsan =84= 52¼ 2. =Langon= to La Réole =18= 11¼ =La Réole= to Marmande =20= 12¼ =Marmande= to Tonneins =18= 11¼ =Tonneins= to Agen =38= 23½ =Agen= to Moissac =41= 25½ =Moissac= to Montauban =30= 18¾ =Montauban= to Toulouse =52= 32½ =Toulouse= to Pamiers =60= 39½ =Toulouse= to Carcassonne =102= 63½ SECTION X MONT-DE-MARSAN TO BIARRITZ, 66 MILES (106 KILOMETRES) DISTANCES ALONG THE ROUTE