causses

"These plateaux," says Mr. Scrope, in his interesting account of the geology of Central France, "are called 'causses' in the provincial dialect, and they have a singularly dreary and desert aspect from the monotony of their form and their barren and rocky character.

The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858

God befoir our eyis, for the causses foirsaidis, whiche ar notorious, with one consent and commoun vote, ilk man in ordour his judgement being required, In name and authoritie of our Soverane

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Lord wold, be some honest way, departe with this man, and putt him fra him and fra his Sonnes cumpanye; for I wold be richt sory that any being in any of thare cumpanyes should be called for sick causses, or that any of thame should be bruited to hold any sick men.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Between the Lot and the Aveyron is a belt of _causses_ or monotonous limestone table-lands, broken here and there by profound and beautiful gorges -- a type of scenery characteristic of

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

"And Thridlie, He required that no suche sentence should be pronunced against her, bott that upoun her knawin and oppen reapentance, and upoun her conversioun to the commoun-wealth, and submissioun to the Nobilitie, place should be granted unto her of regresse to the same honouris from the whiche, for just causses, sche justlie might be deprived."

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

The people of these _causses_ have a supernatural explanation for everything that they cannot account for by the light of reason and observation.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

Since the failure of the vines -- which formerly flourished upon the _causses_ wherever there was a favourable slope -- the peasants have learnt to make a mildly alcoholic liquor by gathering and fermenting the juniper berries, which previously they had never put to any use.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

This limestone rock is by its nature disintegrating wherever it is exposed to the air and frost, and the foundations of the bastions which support the _causses_ are being continually sapped by water which carries away the lime in solution and deposits a part of it elsewhere in the form of stalactite and stalagmite in the deep galleries where subterranean rivers often run, and which probably descend to the lowest part of the formation.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

On the _causses_ of the Quercy, the peasants place bottles of holy water on the tops of their chimneys as a protection against lightning.

Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885

The plough used upon these moors, on the _causses_ of the Quercy, and in some other districts where the barrenness of the soil has kept the inhabitants for centuries imprisoned within the circle of their old routine, is one of the simplest that the world has known.

Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885