See also:

• CAUSSES (from Lat. calx through local Fr. caous, meaning " lime ")

CAUSSES (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. calx through See also:

• LOCAL

local Fr. caous, meaning " See also:

• LIME
• LIME (O. Eng. lim, Lat. limes, mud, from linere, to smear)

lime ")  , the name given to the table-lands lying to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of the central See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and sloping westward from the See also:

• CEVENNES (Lat. Cebenna or Gebenna)

Cevennes . They See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form parts of the departments of See also:

• LOZERE

Lozere, See also:

• AVEYRON

Aveyron, See also:

• GARD

Gard, See also:

• HERAULT

Herault, See also:

• LOT
• LOT (Lat. Oltis)

Lot and See also:

• TARN
• TARN (O. Eng. tame, Scand. tjarn, tjdrn, horn, &c.)

Tarn-et-See also:

• GARONNE (Lat. Garumna)

Garonne . They are of See also:

• LIMESTONE

limestone formation, dry, sterile and treeless . These characteristics are most marked in the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of the region, where the Causse de Sauveterre, the Causse Mejan, the Causse Noir and the Larzac flank the Cevennes . Here the Causse Mejan, the most deserted and arid of all, reaches an See also:

• ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of nearly 4200 ft . Towards the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west the lesser See also:

• CAUSSES (from Lat. calx through local Fr. caous, meaning " lime ")

causses of See also:

• ROUERGUE (Ruthenensis pages)

Rouergue and See also:

• QUERCY (Lat. pagus Caturcinus, Fr. Cahorsin)

Quercy attain respectively 2950 ft. and 1470 ft . Once an uninterrupted table-See also:

• LAND

land, the causses are now isolated from one another by deep rifts through which run the Tarn, the Dourbie, the jonte and other See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

rivers . The summits are destitute of See also:

• RUNNING

running See also:

• WATER

water, since the See also:

• RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and Dan. regn; it has been connected with Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)

rain as it falls either sinks through the permeable See also:

• CAUSTIC (Gr. rcavvraubs, burning)

CAUSTIC See also:

• SURFACE

surface See also:

• SOIL

soil or runs into the fissures and chasms, some of See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• DEPTH

depth, which are See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar to the region . The inhabitants (Caussenards) of the higher causses cultivate hollows in the ground which are protected from the violent winds, and the scanty herbage permits of the raising of See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep, from the See also:

• MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk of which Roquefort cheeses are made . In the west, where the rigours of the See also:

• WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

weather are less severe, See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture is more easily carried on .