Crossword-Solution: SOUTERRAINS 11 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Concluons, donc, de tout ce qui prťcŤde, que le dťluge, seul et les feux souterrains seuls ne suffisent point pour expliquer la formation des couches de la terre.

The passages are all arched over in semicircle." [Illustration: Cluseau de Fauroux.] Lacoste, speaking of the Saracen invasion and devastation of Quercy, says that "in Lower Quercy, where caverns are not common as they are in Upper Quercy, the inhabitants dug _souterrains_ with a labour that only love of life could prompt.

Consequently a great number of such _souterrains_ are under castles or in the grounds of a feudal lord.

But when these latter ceased to look to their lords to protect them, and cast about instead to shelter themselves from their lords, the original purport of these _souterrains_ was forgotten and misinterpreted.

They no longer carried their goods into the _souterrains_ under the castles, but into refuges contrived by themselves in the depths of forests, known only to themselves; hidden, above all, from their seigneurs.