SUMiMlT OF CAP ROUX. 



benevolence touched the hearts of these miscreants, and 

 it is said that the^' mended their \va\'s from that ver\' hour. 



We stood again outside the ca\'e lost in contemplation 

 of this charming view. On this same landscape St. Honor- 

 atus must have looked some fifteen hundred \-cars ago. 

 Then, as now, the j'jorph^ry rocks glowed red in the sunshine, 

 and the eternal snows gleamed on tlie summits of the Alps. 

 The same stri^'ing after ideals remains in mankind, but 

 manifests itself in otlier ways. 



\\'"e now descend again to the spring, and there strike 

 into a path which leads us to the summit ot the moun- 

 tain from the west. We tried to make Castor go home, 

 but he preferred not to leave us. He seemed indeed no 

 longer to I eel it his dut^• to act as guide; and instead of 

 walking in front of us. stra\-ed hither and thither. His chief 

 delight was to put up birds from the shrubs, and then 

 watch them rise into the air. At one time he appeared to 

 be chasing a large animal, probabh' onp of the many foxes 

 which inhabit the Esterel. 



On the summit ol Cap Roux, the Grand Pic, or as 

 it was formerU' called \lgie de Pe\"Ssarin, a prospect un- 

 folds before us the like of which is rareh' seen. It is im- 

 pressi\-e in its grandeur. While from the Mont X'inaigrc 

 the e\'e looks far awa\- over wooded hills to the sea, here 

 we ha\-e the blue water at our feet. The green slopes of 

 Cap Roux first incline genth" towards the sea, then the 

 cliff becomes bare and drops sheer into the waves, then 

 rugged rocks project and sharp ridges jut out into the sea, 

 imprisoning the \\'ater here and there in bowls and crater- 

 like hollows. Finall\-, after di\'ing below the surface, the 



