In Bearn these shelving roofs are constantly to be seen.] The descendants of these new colonists have not forgotten their origin; they inherit the manners of their fathers; wear the same thick hair and long coats.

Their drawling pronunciation, peculiar idiom, and the slowness of their movements, make them easily distinguished from the lively Gascons.

A curious mixture of dialect resulted from the re-union of so many provinces with the _patois_ of the country, and the language still heard there is a jargon of strange sounds.
The capital of what was called _La Gavacherie_, was placed at Castelmoron-d'Albret, which is now one of the finest and most fertile cantons in the diocese of Bazas.
There exists a propensity, it seems, in the people of this part of the country, particularly about Agen, to fix contemptuous epithets on strangers who settle amongst them; it matters not from what land they come,--it is sufficient that the Gascon idiom is unknown to them.
The foreigner is generally called, in derision, _lou Franchiman_;[15] and is, for a long time after his first arrival, an object of suspicion and dislike.
[Footnote 15: See the Poems of Jasmin.] This term evidently belongs to the period of the English possession, when a _Frenchman_ was another word for an enemy.
On these shores, traces of the dwellings of the Romans are constantly found in Mosaic pavements, and ruins and coins.

At Hures, in particular, some fine specimens have been lately discovered: amongst others, fragments of pillars of _verd-antique_ and fine marbles of different sorts.

There is also a marvellous rock at Hures, where an invisible miraculous virgin is still in the habit of performing wonders, though her statue has been long since removed.
A high hill, once crowned with a castle, rises from the river after a series of flat meadows.