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as foreigners gulphed down well and ill cooked dishes 

 with equanimit\' ; and this was discouraging to a 

 careful house-wife. Then m\- neighbour at the table 

 explained, in a lengthy- speech, that he could not see 

 wh\' one sense should be neglected more than another 

 One person might lun-e a dull palate: another sightless 

 e\'es, or deaf ears. Alen \\ho ^\ere unable to distinguish 

 between a carp and a turbot. inspired him with no 

 higher res]:)ect than those who confused \'an Dyck with 

 Raphael or (jounod with Wagner ! 



Although the food was good the rest of the arrange- 

 ments left somethinpf to be desired as regards comfort: 

 so that in spite of the excellent cuisine we longed some- 

 times for other accommodation. 



A tramway' now runs between St. Tropez and La 

 Foux, a station on the Sud de la France line. It passes 

 the castle of Bertaud, ancl near its gates a mighty' Fine 

 \\hosc trunk measures i.|uite six \ards in circumference. 

 It ma\' uell be one of the largest Pine trees in existence, 

 ancl man\' a Saracen has camped under its shade. The 

 tree stands in the middle of the Route Nationale and it 

 is much to their credit that the engineers spared it. The 

 tranrwa-^- continues be\ond La Foux northwards to 

 Cogolin. and thence one can reach the Chausee La 

 Garde Freinet. The Romans established a milit ar^' post 

 at this spot to guard the commtmication between the 

 Sinus Sambracitanus and the \'ia Aureliana. which ran 

 through the mountains a little further north. It is a 

 narrow pass between two hills, in which the Moors also 

 entrenched themseh'es in the ^-ear 850, after they had 



