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_Route_ 26.--By carriage _via_ Campan, Ste. Marie, Payole, Col d'Aspin, Arreau, Borderes, Col de Peyresourde, and Garin.
Considered the finest drive in the Pyrenees.
_Route_ 27.--By rail _via_ Montgaillard, Tarbes, Montrejeau, Salechan, Marignac, and Luchon. An exceedingly long round.
_From Bagneres de Luchon to St. Bertrand de Comminges_.
_Route_ 27.--By carriage _via_ Cier, Marignac, Salechan, Loures, and Labroquere.
_Route_ 28.--By train _via_ Marignac and Salechan to Loures, and carriage thence to St. Bertrand. The rail continues from Loures to Montrejeau.
_From St. Bertrand to Montrejeau_.
_Route_ 29.--By carriage to Loures station, thence by train to Montrejeau.
_Route_ 30.--By carriage direct to Montrejeau.
_From Toulouse to Perpignan_.
_Route_ 31.--Via Castelnaudary, Carca.s.sone, Narbonne, La Nouvelle, Salses, and Rivesaltes.
_From Perpignan to Amelie-les-Bains_.
_Route_ 32.--By diligence or carriage _via_ Pollestres, Le Boulou, and Le Pont de Ceret.
_From Perpignan to Molitg_.
_Route_ 33.--By rail _via_ Millas, Ille, Bouleternere, and Vinca, to Prades, thence by diligence or carriage _via_ Catlar to Molitg.
_From Perpignan to Vernet_.
_Route_ 34--Route 33 to Prades and coach to Vernet.
_Route_ 35--By rail _via_ Prades to Villefranche, and carriage thence to Vernet.
APPENDIX C.
SOME LOCAL PYRENEAN TERMS AND THEIR ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS.
_Artigue_, pasturage, prairie.
_Barranque_, a deep hollow or ravine.
_Borde, Bourdette_, farm-house, barn, cot.
_Caire, Quaire, Quarat_, a cone-shaped peak, rocky and bare.
_Canaou_, narrow ravine worn by the snow.
_Cap_, mountain tip.
_Clot_, a valley without exit.
_Colline_, a small valley, a dale.
_Cortal, Courtaou_, sheep-fold, sheep-pen.
_Couila, Couillade_, shepherd's cabin, hut, fertile vale.
_Estibe_, pasturage, feeding-ground.
_Estibere_, a well-pastured mountain.
_Fitte_, pointed summit.
_Montagne_, feeding-ground (on a mountainside).
_Neste_, mountain torrent.
_Orrhy, Orri_, shepherd's hut.
_Oule_, a bowl-shaped valley.
_Pech, Pouey, Puy_, a mountain of no great height, in the Western Pyrenees; but also applied to loftier summits, in the Eastern range.
_Pene, Pena, Penne_, pointed rock.
_Peyre_, a large crag.
_Piche, p.i.s.se_, a cascade waterfall.
_Pinede, Pinade_, pine forest, site of pine forest.
_Pique_, synonymous with _Fitte_, pointed summit, peak.
_Pla, Plan_, a valley with level meadows.
_Prade, Pradere_, similar to _Estibe_, feeding-ground, meadow.
_Raillere_, steep decline, avalanche channel.
_Roque_, a mountain, steep and covered with crags.
_Sarrat, Serre, Serrere_, a sharp-toothed crest, backbone of mountain.
_Sarre_, a small hill.
_s...o...b.., Scube_, wood, forest.
_Tausse, Truc, Truque, Tuc_, a steep and lofty peak with large b.u.t.tresses.
The _Defiles_ and _Pa.s.ses_ of the mountains for which the word _Col_ is generally applied, bear many other names, of which the following, with their special significations, are the chief:--
_Core_, a pa.s.s on a side range or small lateral chain.
_Fourgue, Fourquette, Hourque, Hourquette_, generally applied to pa.s.ses on the small side ranges.
_Pas_, a pa.s.s difficult of approach.
_Port_, a pa.s.s in the princ.i.p.al chain.
_Porteil, Portillon, Pourtet_, pa.s.ses in the princ.i.p.al or side chains.
