Excerpt from The Romantic Roussillon: In the French Pyrenees The other end of the Pyrenees on the Bay of Biscay suggested cold winds and gilded casinos and golf: Whereas away where the mountain wall peters out into the Mediterranean the little fishing towns and villages had unfamiliar names, vision names such as Port Vendres and over into Spain, Rosas, on the Bay of Rosas; names with the sun in them. One guessed at crumbling walls round the towns, at look-out towers and castles on the hills. It was Clearly a country left to itself, where a rhythmic tenor of life would carry on from century to century, and the people and the land suffice for each other. Up against the Pyrenees, a mere fringe of France, it would if anything get Spain into its blood: and Spain stands for a sort of enchantment. For the rest, one thought of it as light and shimmering in heat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.