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Cobweb of lines -- The Viscounty -- S. Lizier -- S. Girons -- S. / Lizier a double town -- Two cathedrals -- Bishop Bernard -- His / palace -- S. Marie de la Sède -- The other cathedral -- Bridge and / inscription -- Ramparts -- The training of dancing bears -- Bear / hunting -- Mendicity -- Improvidence -- Factory of La Moulasse -- Job / cigarette papers -- Vic -- Sully tree -- Oust -- The Nine Springs -- / Aulus -- The Planturel.
The railway lines in the central portion of the Pyrenees converge on Toulouse, and to get across country from west to east is no easy matter. In the Eastern Pyrenees they form a cobweb amidst which the traveller gets entangled and spends a day unprofitably in endeavours to extricate himself, for French railway directors ingeniously contrive to make through travelling by branch lines most difficult, or at least most tedious. To reach S. Girons it is necessary to run northwards from S. Gaudens to Boussens, then change trains and turn the face due south, following up the Salat, past the salt springs of Salies.