The most noticeable steeds besides, are Rowlestone, Sir Peter, Windcliffe, and Skirmisher--the last thirty-seven years' old--whose names bespeak their origin; there is also a fine Arab from Algiers, named Beni.

The Haras is beautifully kept, and is surrounded by a fine garden, from whence the view of the distant mountains, beyond Bagneres de Bigorre, is exceedingly grand.
In that direction I decided upon bending my steps, and, returning to my hotel in the Place Maubourguet, my preparations for departure were soon made.
The distance from Tarbes to Bagneres de Bigorre is not more than five leagues, and the road thither would seem to be perfectly level, were it not for the impetuous flow of the Adour, along the left bank of which we travel, reminding us of the gradual ascent.

The country is everywhere highly cultivated; and the peasants were busily employed with their second crops of hay, and securing their harvest of Indian corn.

One historical site attracts attention on leaving Tarbes;--the old Chateau of Odos, where died, in 1549, "La Marguerite de Marguerites," Queen of Navarre, the sister of Francis the First, whose name will ever be associated with that of her adopted country.

On this spot we lay down our recollections of the past, absorbed, as we approach the mountains, in the thoughts which their magnificence inspires,--which, while they, too, speak of the past, are ever appealing to the present, in their changeless forms and still enduring beauty, their might, their majesty, and their loneliness.
The watering-place of Bagneres has been described by so many tourists, that I spare the description here; and the more readily as it was nearly deserted when I arrived.