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theory of hot springs, especially as these waters issue 

 just at the junction of the granite and limestone. The 

 limestone rises always to the granite, more as it ap- 

 proaches it, and at last is elevated in horizontal strata 

 on the top of it at least so far as I could judge from 

 a very imperfect examination. What confirms the view 

 of the granite being the upheaving agent is that the 

 valley of disruption is perpendicular in direction to the 

 ta (Hopkins' theory). It is remarkable that there 

 are marks of water wearing (obviously not weathering) 

 on the rocks at a great height above the torrent/ 



The scenery appeared to him more and more beautiful 

 as he passed on by Argeles to Luz, a little village lying 

 on the brink of a brawling stream, embosomed in rich 

 meadows, and crowned by a quaint old castle, the chapel 

 of which is a remarkable specimen of Romanesque archi- 

 tecture. The hotels, even there, were delightful compared 

 with those of many more pretentious localities, and for 

 four weeks Forbes made this charming spot his head- 

 quarters. 



Journal, July 14. 



* Following the custom of the place, I hired a pony and 

 rode to Barege .... As unfortunately the supply of the 

 Barfege water is quite inadequate to the demand, it is 

 constantly husbanded in cisterns, where it must necessarily 

 undergo a change of temperature, depending more or less 

 on the season. For this reason I took the temperature of 

 only three of the principal springs as they flowed from 

 tln-ir ta In thoc reservoirs the ////',////, or fatty 



matt opiuiisly deposited : I procured .some with 



ulty, the bath-keeper, whose perquisite it is, trying 

 as usual to mystify me. The country people have great 



i in its application as a poultice, but I believe this is 

 -anetioned by the faculty, who, how- ill to be 



almost profound ignorance of the mode in which 

 these waters operate, for it is sometimes as unaccountably 



i^etic as it is at others the reverse. Certain it is 

 that the greatest cap- i- i y in the use of them, 



