On the curative influence of the climate of Pau, and the mineral waters of the Pyrenees, on disease : with descriptive notices of the geology, botany, natural history, mountain sports, local antiquities, and topography of the Pyrenees, and their principal watering-places / by Alexander Taylor.
- Alexander Taylor
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the curative influence of the climate of Pau, and the mineral waters of the Pyrenees, on disease : with descriptive notices of the geology, botany, natural history, mountain sports, local antiquities, and topography of the Pyrenees, and their principal watering-places / by Alexander Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![The amusements consist in balls, promenades, and excursions. The former take place once a week or even more frequently; the facilities for prome- nades are very few; but, to make up for this, the excursions are various and fall of interest. We may instance the ascent of the Pic de Midi de Bigorre, which is made with tolerable ease from the Barreges side, and is besides so much nearer than that of Bagneres, that one may more readily choose a clear day and be more certain of its continuing so. Then, there is the Pic de Bergons behind the town of Luz, from the summit of which we see, among a thousand other splendid morceaux of scenery, the most perfect coup-d'mil of the Cirque of Gavarnie and the Breche de Roland, a panorama which well deserves of itself a pilgrimage of a thousand miles—then the excursion to Gavarnie itself a])out twenty miles off;—the castle of St. Marie at Luz, one of the last possessions of the English in this country;—the ancient fortified church of Luz, founded by the Knights Templars ;—and the beautifully situated watering-place, St. Sauveur, half a mile from Luz, where one finds, at least, a less raw and piercing air than at Barreges. The waters of Barreges* may be comprised into three principal sources, according to their states of temperature. The first and most abundant is named the hot source; that of which the temperature is in- Manuel des Eaux Minirales, par Patissier, p. 112. o](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21080161_0307.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
