The body of Rolando, after the fatal day when "Charlemagne and all his peerage fell At Fontarabia," was brought here; and, several centuries afterwards, his tomb was removed to the church of St.Seurin, at Bordeaux.

King Cherebert, grandson of Clovis, has also his tomb on this rock; but no remains of it, I believe, are now shown.

Our troops, in 1814, could tell of the obstinate resistance of the citadel, and were well able to measure its strength.
The banks of the river are, from hence, covered with vines, and are higher and more rocky.

Numerous dwellings cut in the rocky face of the hills remind one of the same appearance on the borders of the Loire; but in no other respect can the clay-coloured river claim resemblance with that crystal though sand-encumbered stream.

Several bold rocks diversify the prospect here,--one called the Roque-de-Tau, and another the Pain-de-Sucre.
The space where the two rivers, Dordogne and Garonne, meet, and falling together into one, form the Gironde, is called _L'Entre-Deux-Mers_; and the shore the Bec d'Ambez.