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«A une demie lieue de l'Hospice dans une vallon assez large pour une pareille hauteur, nommé les Envers des Foireuse, on rencontre une énorme quantité de pierre roulées qui remplissent presque tout le haut de ce vallons. Cet amas de pierres provient des glaciers et des hauteurs qui descendent du Mont-Velan, qui est la partie la plus élevée du groupe de montagnes, qui forment le grand Saint Bernard. L
As I swung round the bend of the hills downwards and looked up the sloping dell, I remembered that these heathery hollows were called 'vallons' by the people of Lorraine, and this set me singing the song of the hunters, 'Entends tu dans nos vallons, le Chasseur sonner du clairon, which I sang loudly till I reached the river bank, and lost the exhilaration of the hills.
In March, 1687, Sewall wrote to London for "White Fustian Drawn enough for curtains, vallen counterpaine for a bed & half a duz chaires with four threeded green worsted to work it." In 1691 we find him writing for "Fringe for the Fustian bed & half a duz Chairs. Six yards and a half for the vallons, fifteen yards for 6 chairs two Inches deep; 12 yards half inch deep."
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