Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-08-01
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at the surrounding mountains, and
fairly trembled at the sight. Occa-
sionally the usual roar of the falls
was changed to duller sound, which
We thought was caused by stones fall.
ing with the water. The falls are not
wide like Niagara, but they are five
times as high. Tennyson in THE Lo-
tus Eaters" speaks of mist there as
lawn, and it was written in sight OF
Gavarnie. As we stood there and
looked about US, We were in an amphi-
theater of mountains, and we could
count thirteen different falls in differ
ent places, some of them like silver
threads. The mountains were not all
white. but had great stretches of snow
in between them, and running up their
sides in the low places. We drank out
of the glacial streams, which were al
most Ice cold. In one place the snow
was by our path, and We tasted it.
Beautiful flowers grow upon the hills,
and pressed some. Alpine roses and
q long cluster of white flowers some
thing in the shape of a locust bunch,
grows in almost inaccessible places.
The call 1t ssQueen of the Pyrennees. -
They had one in a.pot at the hotel. On
the table was stuffed chamois, and we
had roast chamois for dinner. 1t was
fine, and the trout that they catch in
the rushing streams was delicious,
The second night we had ice cream,
which was made with mountain snow,
suppose.
CETTE, July 2, P. NJ.
We are waiting an hour and a half
on our way to Mines. Let me tell you
of the interesting things we just saw
on a walk. This town is on the Med
iteranean, and besides that, there are
some canals. We crossed three
bridges. and saw fishing boats and
boats filed with wine barrels. We
saw a number of French soldiers,
dressed in Zouave costume, baggy blue
trousers aud blue jackets, with red tur-
bans. They are In the Algerian SER
vice, and are considered the fiercest
fighters in the army. The horses wear
such heavy collars. The top goes up
in the shape of pointed horn, for two
feet or SO, and is often decorated with
brass or bells. We passed shop where
man was out in the street pulling the
wadded hair that comes out of these
huge collars, through machine that
made it light. We saw boy with q
fox fastened to long rope. Down on
the quais we saw the primitive way
they have of saving timber. They
had long beam propped up st each
end, four or fve feet from the ground.
One man stood above and another one
below. and they were saving the tim
ber lengthwise by hand. The sea as
we first saw it, was dotted with fishing
boats. The day was cool and cloudy,
and 80 the sea was not as blue as ex-
pected it to be. But the scenery is
glorious.
Carcassonne is in two parts. the
new and old city. The first view of
the old city was last night about nine,
when we walked out on the old bridge
and saw the whole thing outlined
against the bright moonlight. This
morning after an eight o'clock break
fast, we went all over the place.
There is double row of Notifications
about mile around. The plan of the
Notifications dates back 70 Roman
times, later the Visigoths rebuilt part
of it, and later still Philip the Bold.
We walked around the inner fortifica-
tions, fine walk, occasionally climb
ing one of the fifty towers that are in
corporated In the walls. The view of
the Pyrennees and other mountains In
every degree of blue and purple haze.
was beyond description.
CLARA MAY.