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"How pleasant it is for him who is saved to remember his danger. " Euripides
From Ailefroide to Claux, but for the path, travel would be scarcely more easy than over the Pré de Madame Carle.153 The valley is strewn with immense masses of gneiss, from the size of a large house downwards, and it is only occasionally that rock in situ is seen, so covered up is it by the debris, which seems to have been derived almost entirely from the neighbouring cliffs.154