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Col de Puy Morens -- Etang de Lanous -- Many lakes -- Dreary country -- / River of Carol -- Dam of Quès -- County of Cerdagne -- Divided at the / Peace of the Pyrenees -- Llivia -- Ceretani -- Bourg-Madame -- Paradise / of botanists -- Relics of the Flood -- Mont Louis -- General Dagobert / -- Church of Planès -- Font-Romeu -- Image, object of Pilgrimage -- / Story of Othman and Lampagia.
From Ax-les-Thermes a good carriage road crosses the Col de Puy Morens to the Cerdagne and to Puygcerda in Spanish territory. It passes through most bald and weariful uplands, under the Pic de Carlitte, which is the highest point of the watershed between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The height of this peak is 9580 feet, and its flanks are starred with lakes, many of which are frozen through a great part of the year, more than are found in any other part of the Pyrenees. The Etang de Lanous is three kilometres long and from 500 to 600 yards across, pinched in the middle so as to form two basins. It is covered with ice for about nine months. It swarms with red-fleshed _Salmo alpinus_, which is excellent eating.