But I have found, during my travels in the Mediterranean, many persons of education, who pretended they did not believe this or that superstition of their church, whilst they were at heart great cowards, having no courage to reject a popular falsehood, and quite as superstitious as those who never doubt the excrescent dogmas or traditionary fables of their religion.

The mountains are rounded in outline, very massive, with small excrescent peaks and undeveloped 'cwms' (T. + 18°).