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Between this town and Bayonne, the Adour receives 

 important additions to its increasing waters. The Gave 

 de Pau runs straight from the Upper Pyrenees through 

 a most romantic country, interspersed with small towns 

 and villages of the most antique and delightful descrip- 

 tion. The river, in its downward course, flows through 

 the fine town of Pau, a most charming place, where a 

 considerable number of English, and strangers from other 

 parts of Europe, constantly reside. This town is entitled 

 to a few days' inspection. All its public buildings are 

 good; and some have interesting historical associations 

 connected with them. 



Almost all the tributaries of the Adour lie to the 

 right hand of the river, as you pass up the stream from 

 Bayonne. All have their sources in the Pyrenees, and 

 generally run in nearly straight lines to their junctions 

 with the parent stream. They occur in the following 

 order: The Ardanaba, the Saran, the Midouze, the 

 Gave-de-Pau, the Toursan, the Douze, the Luy, the 

 Gabas, and the Midon; besides which, the country is 

 intersected by twenty or thirty smaller streams which 

 feed these main arteries of the Adour. 



Very near the sea, so near as scarcely to be considered 

 a tributary, the river Nive rolls its waters into the mouth 

 of the Adour. It is a good trout-stream, and runs a 

 distance of about thirty or forty miles from its source, 

 through a very interesting country. 



It may be remarked generally, that there are no 

 accumulations of fishing-streams in France, better calcu- 

 lated for sport than those which enter the sea at Bayonne. 

 Many of our own countrymen, as well as foreigners, 

 can bear ample testimony to their merits in this repect; 

 and of our own knowledge we are in a condition to state, 



