| The winter is fast coming on, and winter in the Vosges mountains is no trifle. |
| Higher, steeper slopes of the Vosges have thin topsoil, with subsoils of weathered gneiss, granite, sandstone, schist, and volcanic sediments. |
| Fortunately for the lover of nature no English writer has as yet popularized the Vosges. |
| On the 20th we held the approaches to Colmar, both by the plain and by the Vosges. |
| We would stagger down from the Rue Oberkampf and collapse on the lawns of the Place des Vosges, letting the buttery pastry melt into our veins. |
| Much later that night, after a perfect fish soup in the Place des Vosges, I walked into the narrow passages of the Marais district and stumbled upon an impromptu block party. |
