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Rhone valley gives one a sense of depression and almost
of melancholy. Hawthorne called the region bleak, bar-
ren, brown, and bare. To
be sure he saw it in winter,
but even in early spring we
have a little of the same feel-
ing. Beyond the verdure
stand the great rounded
bluffs,--scorched and cal-
cined. What look like
patches of black furze cap
their tops, and reach scant-
ily down their sides; while
roads climb up in dusty zig-
zags, cramped or sweeping
as the ravines dictate. "Old
as the rocks of Provence,"
the proverb says. Not
merely old, they seem, but
dead, the bleached skeleton
of a land once young, a fit
guardian of ruined forums
and amphitheatres and the
fallen temples of perished
gods. Even the valley
seems withering in their
ashen grasp. The straight
white roads burn. The
watercourses are already
drying.


THE WALL OF DIE.

Stronger yet is the tinge
of sadness as we turn ab-
ruptly, from the Rhone, and
for thirty miles climb the
valley of the Drôme. Little

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Troubadours at Home: Their Lives and Personalities, Their Songs and Their World. Volume: 1. Contributors: Justin H. Smith - author. Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1899. Page Number: 96.
    
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