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Geological formation-Characteristics of the Boutières and of / the people-S. Peray and its wine-Castle of Crussol-Valley / of the Erieux-A masterpiece of engineering-La Voute-Its / decay-The chapel of the castle-Vernoux, the Geneva of the / Huguenots-The Momiens-Party feeling-Massacre of S. Bartholomew-La / Pourasse-The Cachard family-The drummer-Gorge of the Dunnière-La / Tourette-Chalencon-Diana of Poitiers-Le Cheylard.
Les Boutières have already had some sentences devoted to them. They differ geologically, and consequently in scenery, altogether from the high range of volcanic peaks of the mountains of the Vivarais below Privas. They are composed of granite and gneiss, and continue the Cévennes chain northwards. There are among them no craters, no floods of crystallised lava. Their heights are not extraordinary; they throw out long lateral spurs towards the Rhône. The scenery is tamer than in any other part of the Cévennes; that portion from Annonay to S. Etienne is given up to factories, which makes the country people prosperous but the country unattractive.