[5] I am told that the fouilles are open every year during a part of the month of August.
[6] Hamerton says, that, on a clear day you can see Mont Blanc, 157 miles as the crow flies. It is the distance from London to Scarborough.
[7] "The Mount," pp. 54-56.
[8] "The Mount," pp. 103-4.
[9] The Pierre Salvée has no legend; the name is probably derived from some ancient divinity.
[CHAPTER II]
In the railway station of Autun we had waited long for our bicycles to be taken out of the train. They did not appear. The porters were all busy with a cattle-truck that they were pushing casually down a siding, till it was stopped in mid-career by the buffers of another truck.