St. Feriol, Escamaze, and Lampy are in the montagnes noires.
Illustration: THE DEMON-DOG] Among the peaks of the Montagnes d'Arree lies a vast and dismal peat bog known as the Yeun, which has long been regarded by the Breton folk as the portal to the infernal regions.
The road down by the eastern valley of the Montagnes des Oiseaux to the Costebelle road passes near one of the principal springs which supply the town.
Seventy years later, another writer on Spain says of the Pyrenees, 'Ces montagnes sont a nos voyageurs modernes, ce qu'etoit aux anciens mariniers le Non plus ultra et les colomnes du grand Hercule.
The French voyageurs of the fur-traders were the first to note the characteristic blue, and according to Ross Cox, began at once to say, "Les Montagnes Bleues.
He describes the immense numbers of rattlesnakes around the mouth of the Wallah Wallah, and--a more pleasing theme the appearance of the mountains which he says the Canadians called from their color, "Les Montagnes Bleues.
Montagnes de l'Oisans', see Elie de Beaumont, in the 'Mem.
But up in the mountains of Basse Bretagne, the Montagnes Noirs as they are called, it is different.
The Foire is just one very long street, with booths and merry-go-rounds, and Montagnes Russes, and all sorts of amusing things down each side.
The Comte sat on my other side; he said I would be greatly amused at the booths presently, and was I afraid of Montagnes Russes?
I cannot help smiling at the polite official statement, "It was decided to abandon the Montagnes Vertes.
It was decided, therefore, to keep the Grivitza redoubt, and to abandon the Montagnes Vertes.
The triple peaks of the Méné-Hom, one of the Montagnes Noires, is a prominent feature in the view.
It represents, as was before stated, the crests of the Montagnes de la Cote and Taconay, shown from base to summit, with the Glacier des Bossons and its moraine.
The inn (aux Six Montagnes Noirs) was dirty, and the attendance very mediocre; but the beds were good, and free from vermin.
Ascending les montagnes de St. Marie aux Mines, the scenery presented a beautiful melange of wood and rock; the road likewise was excellent.
The pond or basin is completely frozen over, and a Russian Prince, Gallitzin, who is here, has fitted up a sort of Montagnes Russes as they are called.
It is a charming village--it can hardly be named more ambitiously--situated at the source of the river Jaur, which rises in the Montagnes Noir in Lower Languedoc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "montagnes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
