on the other side of the valley, immediately opposite to the spot where the travellers rested, a rocky pass opened toward gascony.
here no sign of cultivation appeared.the rocks of granite, that screened the glen, rose abruptly from their base, and stretched their barren points to the clouds, unvaried with woods, and uncheered even by a hunter's cabin.sometimes, indeed, a gigantic larch threw its long shade over the precipice, and here and there a cliff reared on its brow a monumental cross, to tell the traveller the fate of him who had ventured thither before.this spot seemed the very haunt of banditti; and emily, as she looked down upon it, almost expected to see them stealing out from some hollow cave to look for their prey.