From Perpignan to Molitg.
Route 33.—By rail viâ Millas, Ille, Bouleternère, and Vinca, to Prades, thence by diligence or carriage viâ Catlar to Molitg.
From Perpignan to Vernet.
Route 34—Route 33 to Prades and coach to Vernet.
Route 35—By rail viâ Prades to Villefranche, and carriage thence to Vernet.
APPENDIX C.
SOME LOCAL PYRENEAN TERMS AND THEIR ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS.
Artigue, pasturage, prairie. Barranque, a deep hollow or ravine. Borde, Bourdette, farm-house, barn, cot. Caire, Quaire, Quaïrat, a cone-shaped peak, rocky and bare. Canaou, narrow ravine worn by the snow. Cap, mountain tip. Clot, a valley without exit. Colline, a small valley, a dale. Cortal, Courtaou, sheep-fold, sheep-pen. Couila, Couillade, shepherd's cabin, hut, fertile vale. Estibe, pasturage, feeding-ground. Estibère, a well-pastured mountain. Fitte, pointed summit. Montagne, feeding-ground (on a mountainside). Neste, mountain torrent. Orrhy, Orri, shepherd's hut. Oule, a bowl-shaped valley. Pech, Pouey, Puy, a mountain of no great height, in the Western Pyrenees; but also applied to loftier summits, in the Eastern range. Pène, Peña, Penne, pointed rock. Peyre, a large crag. Piche, Pisse, a cascade waterfall. Pinède, Pinade, pine forest, site of pine forest. Pique, synonymous with Fitte, pointed summit, peak. Pla, Plan, a valley with level meadows. Prade, Pradère, similar to Estibe, feeding-ground, meadow. Raillère, steep decline, avalanche channel. Roque, a mountain, steep and covered with crags. Sarrat, Serre, Serrère, a sharp-toothed crest, backbone of mountain. Sarre, a small hill. Séoube, Scube, wood, forest. Tausse, Truc, Truque, Tuc, a steep and lofty peak with large buttresses.
The Defiles and Passes of the mountains for which the word Col is generally applied, bear many other names, of which the following, with their special significations, are the chief:—
Core, a pass on a side range or small lateral chain. Fourgue, Fourquette, Hourque, Hourquette, generally applied to passes on the small side ranges. Pas, a pass difficult of approach. Port, a pass in the principal chain. Porteil, Portillon, Pourtet, passes in the principal or side chains.