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Avignon is the capital of the department of Vaucluse, the department being so named rather from the celebrity of the poet, than from its local relations. Departure from Avignon Olive and Mulberry Fields Orgon St. Canat French Divorces Inn at St. Canat Air Situation Cathedral Society Provisions Price of Land Marseilles Conclusion.
With this resolution, therefore, I left Avignon for Marseilles, a distance of about seventy miles. We divided it therefore into two days; arranging so as to reach St. Canat on the first night, and Marseilles on the second. The road to Orgon, where we dined, presented us with a great variety of scenery, though the surface was rather level.
Canat will be long remembered by me, for the unusual circumstance of a most hearty welcome from a good-humoured host, a widower, and his two daughters. The eldest was the most beautiful brunette I have ever seen. She was as coquettish as if educated in Paris, and as easy, as familiar, as inclined to gallantry, as this description of ladies, in France at least, universally are.
Canat, the first post, the country improves a little, and the mountain under which Aix is situated begins to thrust its lofty head above the intervening line of hills. In proceeding a little further, we caught a distant glimpse of the Etang de Berre to the west, and presently distinguished Aix in a deep vale under our feet, into which the descent is long and steep.
The town is surrounded by chalk-hills and quarries, from which is dug a free-stone, of the most delicate white. The town, on the whole, had an air of rusticity and recluseness which might have delighted a romantic imagination. Between Orgon and St. Canat we travelled in a road occasionally bordered by almond trees.
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