mouktains. *9 
»UP!T Bj^rcelona tins mountain presents a bold and 
aim laf west, towards Vacarisas, it is 
roatl P*^'"P®r'dicular, notwithstanding which, a carriage- 
slielip!^a convent, which is placed in a 
of tZ„ tlie rocks, at about half the height 
the rorW^°'^”^™‘ Llobregat roars at the bottom ; and 
water -if perpendicular waUs from the edge of tha 
two crnurn above the convent, the mountain divides into 
hires • uri a which form the mort prominent fea- 
into uilla/' pinnacles, blanched and bare 
picturesque effect si>wn1nr crl 
toitages, which at 
*nountain, some ~ aitfereiu poims or uvi 
cones, to \vhich tl ^ r very pinnacles of the 
in cavities hewn 
accessible nnrt nf *i ^ dottiest pyramids. Tlie higliest 
St. Maddelem is above the hermitage of 
L_ descent vt/l-iit'K K<^twpf^n twn 
two rm«r« the convent, the mountain divides 
hires • wtia which form the mort prominent 
into uillar- pinnacles, blanched and bare, and split 
picturesque effect h *‘“pes, give a most 
toitactes whir-v. biere are seen fourteen or liftcen lier- 
toountain scattered over different points of tlie 
. ’ “ume ot tliem m, tl,„ the 
i placed 
„qrr 1. I rj Tlie highest 
St. Maddel'eua” tl! nbove hermitage of 
cones, bv a fl;,rL ncscent from which is between two 
into a valley wl ' K C‘^^*‘--d Jacob's Ladder, leading 
tain. The con tl-e summit of the moun- 
tl'e souUiern grotesque shapes, 
‘t:semblanrp t ceing named “ the Organ.” from its 
At tJ,r “• cf pipes- ' 
ancf valley, which is a perfect shrub- 
•lerome, the hiO^' eniinence, stands the hermitage of St. 
tile loftiest remote of all ; and near it is 
little chapel, de^'' whole mountain, on which is a 
pinnacle the Virgin. From this elevated 
Altliou^h and splendid, 
t^iese shattered ® wreaked all their fury oti 
^,®‘' gifts; thesnaePsL^!^. "*^"'® *^®®.'l sparing ill 
close Woods wfoi ^^ween the rocks being lilled up with 
plants, serve to ad ' ^ numerous evergreens, and otlxw 
finable denne't ^ - various chasms, rendering tiiem 
indeed, are the *^^'® vegetable kingdom. Few, 
fccndh;;\r,,!.':°'^'-®®.n* of Europe which may not be 
Swinburne * th "" ’i'® mountain was visited by Mr. 
liundred ^®®‘'^ of tlie convent had a li.st of 
trees whinV."i * '“'^y'^cven species of plants, and forty 
Venerable dHp M'P spontaneously, and grace this hoary 
*'*ountain thJ. being two springs only on the 
> Ulcie IS a cr»ar/>W»r ,.t.' ...... , * * * 
— IWU VJIU^ uu LilC 
® IS a scarcity of water, which is chiedy 
