First published in Crown 8vo _September, 1903_ Reprinted _December, 1903_ Reprinted _February, 1904_ Reprinted _October, 1904_ New Edition, in Crown Quarto, with numerous additions, and Illustrations BY W. B. MACDOUGALL _September, 1905_ Every landscape has a basis of geology: in order to seize the features of the Cantal, you should stand, if possible, on the pointed crest of the Puy Mary. Before you, where once yawned a crater, rises an ash-grey cone of clinkstone: the Puy de Griou, a perfect sugarloaf. Here was the centre of volcanic force; and from this pile of long-dead lava some twelve or fifteen deep valleys radiate like the beams of a star. Down every valley runs a river. The rocky f…
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