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Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon (1912)

Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton), 1848-1923 · London, Murray · leaf 387

An illustration from Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon, 1912, leaf 387
e Gorge de la Fou, where thetorrent dashes through a narrow channel at the bottomof a rocky chasm 525 feet high, and but 16 feet wide. Narbonne. Narbo was a flourishing town as early as the fifthcentury B.C. It was the capital of the Voices Tecto-sages, and appears to owe its name to the… … CO < O BH O »;fa aoc^o O 2 QQ MS O < u u HI wIc/] M1-1 > o 03 ROMAN ROADS 327 the colour being sacred to Mars. The Gaulish town,increased by a Roman colony in 116 B.C., was sur-rounded by lagoons, at the bottom of a gulf which wassilting up. By turning a branch of the Aude into itthe…

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