OR THE CAUSSES OF THE LOZÈRE BY M. BETHAM-EDWARDS To M. SADI CARNOT. THIS VOLUME, THE THIRD OF MY PUBLISHED TRAVELS IN FRANCE, IS INSCRIBED WITH ALL RESPECT TO HER HONOURED PRESIDENT. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTORY PART I. MY FIRST JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE CAUSSES . CHAP. I. FROM LE PUY TO MENDE II. MENDE III. A GLIMPSE OF THE CAUSSES IV. ON THE TOP OF THE ROOF V. RODEZ AND AURILLAC VI. THE LAND OF THE BURON PART II. MY SECOND JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE CAUSSES. I. THROUGH THE MORVAN II. THROUGH THE MORVA

MY FIRST JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE CAUSSES. The traveller in France will not unseldom liken his fortunes to those of Saul the son of Kish, who, setting forth in search of his father's asses, found a kingdom; or, to use a homelier parable, will compare his case to that of the donkey between two equally-tempting bundles of hay. Such, at least, was my luck when starting for my annual French tour in 1887. I had made up my mind to see something of the Lozère and the Cantal, settling down in two charmi

MY SECOND JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE CAUSSES. Of the four hundred and fifty passengers who crossed with us from Dover to Calais, in August, 1888, we lost every trace when quitting the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranée line at La Roche. Writing a hundred years ago, the great agriculturist, Arthur Young, gave his countrymen the following excellent piece of advice, which, it need hardly be said, has been generally neglected from that day to this: 'It may be useful to those who see no more of France than by onc