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Descent from La Bastide-Viaduct of the Luech-Coal-beds-The / town of Alais-Rochebelle-Ancient oppidum-Hermitage-The last / hermit-Sidonius Apollinaris-The Citadel-Family quarrels-The / Cambis family-A ghost story-Making polemical use of a / ghost-Huguenots take Alais-Murders-The Bishopric-The / Cathedral-Silk culture-Introduction of the mulberry and the worm / to Europe-Silk husbandry in France-Favoured by Henry IV. -Olivier / de Serre-Colbert-The Magnanerie-Silk-weaving introduced into / England-A disaster that proved a blessing-Transformations of the / caterpillar-Florian-The faults of an Englishman.
When the train, after quitting La Bastide, has passed through a tunnel at the highest point of the pass, you rush out of a northern clime, with northern vegetation, into a climate with tree, shrub, and flower wholly southern. The Allier and its tributaries were making full gallop for the Atlantic; you see at once torrents racing down gorges to fling themselves into the Mediterranean in which no Greenland icebergs ever float to chill alike the currents and the air. Gulfs open beside the line clothed in chestnuts, mulberries, almonds, vines; oleanders appear, and the kermes oak with its varnished leaves covering the slopes.