CASTLE OX ST. HONORAT. 



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trees, overhanging llie shore, form a frame to the picture. 

 In thnes of danger all the monks of the monaster}- were 

 able to take refuge with their treasure in this castle. A 

 cistern in the middle of the open courtyard supplied 

 the necessary drinking water. Picturesque colonnades 

 rise in two ,^'y; tiers around it. Ruined arches, 



rooms half i/]^^ choked up with earth, secret staircases 



/) ,7 to subterranean chambers succeed each 

 other in i-^/ 



leadinEf 



ir in '"ft^' bewildering confusion. The castle was at 

 once both (-J monastery and fortress, characteristic 



of that age t*^ ,, 



when the same hand often held both 



.J(^<^ cross; an age of passionate excitement, 



blind and rigid in its force of con- 



\'iction, and \'et not wanting in crea- 



I] tive po\'\er and in a peculiar 



ilr poetic sentiment of its 



'or own. A winding stair- 



'')fe<^ case leads to the top 



Jj _ ,^ of the tower whence 



'^ a hne prospect is un- 

 (w7 folded to view. We 



^'"Cs^ ;f/i?^j^^^^,^_^^'~?' look down on the 



ti^^'^^:^' '^'2^/}Z~~'~Ky lies de Lerins. which 



L ^ J^!^' seem to float upon the sea 



^^ like rafts of green, and we 



command a \'iew of the whole stretch 



of the coast from St. Tropez to the 



mountains of Bordighera. — From the 



castle to its very top, growing in the 



the walls, is a Crucifer. This is the 



fniticaits. 



foot of the Y) 

 cre\'ices ot 



