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SECOND 10URN"EY THROUCH FRANCE IN lS14.lion, gl'eat quantities being collected forrlistîUâtioD.Ifereis>thefielcl-of battle ,\y,hel'e Charles MaTtel defeated tlî6"Sai'aCerîs. The botders ofctihe Mediterranean, planted and buiJt,arebeaJutifuV;itîland, the face' ofnature looks w,hite and arid, but has yiel«ed to tillage..As many bourgeois are counted by the side ôfanelû; ..as'peasants afmanuallabour within it. Thus, nowAa-days, the labo\lrer carries outtbat food which in frmer ones ga'\':e himl'So littletr:(!)u'ble in tMs '\pay.ae i8 DOW: at least asweU pnovided as If·ndi'br:as is:a~Jo'\ped~l bybis·}J:oct,tohav:e saHied out,atJe~st; for,oaa:,;one srdeis'sêên'aBle:ndifm'0ûsldâf~,>on the otber as enormousa bottie of:wàne.cnollgh to take sorneTheil" tneal 'i8 considêrableallà theY'takespeeialcare not to dispat'chit: with any indecorous:haste. Of'this their empîdy'ers cd'l!npla~ll,bnt itis,of no,avail :......c01~véeisover, to return nomore-task-masfers are ontheshelf. They do,however, it'Tmusvbeadlnitteû, work harêhearly'and"Jate.A good dea1 of bustJeprevaiJs inthis, town of Perpignan. :Ftom ittoLe Boulou at the foot 'of tbe Pyrenees the soil ri5e5. 1t ls eOlnpQs~dentirely ofgranitic rubble, ànddecomposition.:most wortny ofparticularad\rertenoo. This roof is veryheavy, and'ofliÜlè pitcn; of course thewalls require to be strong,bearing no fewerthan three 'Courses ()f tiles. They do not use thorough1'llfters, but norizontal beam'8; as for instanet>, one at theridges (though the)' have not always a cen­Jtral ridge) and parallelones. 'Thenthesel;Jeams being at the distance from each other of five orsÎxfeet, the shorter rafters arerequisite. The slope of the roof is to its horizontal extent as one to four.On the rafters'aeourse of fiat tiles is laid; on these aMthêr of concave tiles bedded in mortar;,and. on the edges of theseagaina course of convex--.forming altogether a roof equal to vaulting.These tiles are not cylindrical, but shovel-shaped; the fiat tiles lire convex-quadrangular.-Dimen-'sions :-Rafter to raf1>er eightincll'es_Tlieir scantlillg four inches broàd:bytwo inches and a halfdeep.-Flattile, one inch thick, fourteenby SC\'eD'; weight six pOUud8.-Segment tiles, leDgthtwenty Înches; narrow, seven inches,; hroad, ten inches; thickness three-fourths of an inch;weightseven pounds.'"'-8egment, one-thirdofa cÎ!-de.The eavesarê well f)rojected, wïtn maclü­