CONVENT OF THE CORDELIERS: THE CLOISTERS
TOUR DE L'HORLOGE AT LIBOURNE
THE HILL OF FRONSAC
BAZAS
INTERIOR OF THE CHATEAU DE VILLANDRAUT
THE GARONNE
CHATEAU DE MONTESQUIEU
THE GARONNE AT BORDEAUX
THE PALAIS GALLIEN AT BORDEAUX




THE UPPER DORDOGNE.

I had left the volcanic mountains of Auvergne and had passed through
Mont-Dore and La Bourboule, following the course of the Dordogne that
flowed through the valley with the bounding spirits of a young mountaineer
descending for the first time towards the great plains where the large
towns and cities lie with all their fancied wonders and untasted charm.

But these towns and cities were afar off. The young Dordogne had a very
long journey to make before reaching the plains of Perigord. Nearly the
whole of this distance the stream would have to thread its way through
deep-cut gorges and ravines, where the dense forest reaches down to the
stony channel, save where the walls of rock rising hundreds of feet on
either side are too steep for vegetation. Above the forest and the rock
is the desert moor, horrible to the peasant, but to the lover of nature
beautiful when seen in its dress of purple heather and golden broom.