long, you meet the beautiful cascade of the Frissinone; near which is the fifth gallery, and the longest of all, being 202 paces in extent. At no great distance from Gondo where there is a tower seven stories high, is seen a cascade that falls from the defile of Zwischbergen, in which there is a gold mine. Before the new road was made, merchandise was transported on mules, and, in stormy weather, hundreds of beasts of burden were obliged to stop for shelter during several days at the inn of Gondo.

A little below Gondo, a small chapel is built, on the confines of the Valais and of Italy. The first Italian village is called San Marco; next comes Isella, or Dazio, where travellers are searched. You soon after enter a dreary defile which leads to the little village of Dwedro, occupying a pleasant district, though it is immediately surrounded by barren rocks. You then enter a narrow wild valley, pass over two bridges into the sixth and last gallery, and arrive at Crevola. Here you pass over the Veriola, across a bridge that is a master-piece of architecture and sixty yards long. From thence to Domo d' Ossola it is one league.

Whenever a storm succeeds several rainy days, it is advisable to stop at this place, to avoid the danger of being crushed to death by the stones that fall from the tops of the mountains. The valley is very narrow, most of the rocks are split, and the blocks on the summits, being rendered slippery by the rain, and loosened by the wind, fall along the rocks as thick as a shower of hail.

Both in spring and winter this road is extremely dan

This bridge crosses the Deep Cut of the Delaware canal. It is a single arch, 255 feet in length. It is about 85 feet above the canal, and presents a beautiful view to the passengers as they are about to go under it.

WONDERFUL ROAD.

Among other grand works, Peter I. caused a road to be cut from St. Petersburgh, 734 wersts or four hundred and eighty-seven English miles in a direct line. Vast forests were cut through, and a passage made through morasses till then thought impassable. Immense quanti

ties of timber were hewn down, ditches were made, and the earth being thrown up and levelled, straight firs, with their surfaces made plain were laid close to each other upon it. These were supported by a foundation of the same kind of timber, composed of a row of trees on each side secured by cross timbers. This road of timber was carried about one hundred and fifty wersts. A calculation has been made that it contained two million one hundred thousand trees.

"The mines of Dannemore," says a modern traveller, "are celebrated for producing the finest ore in Europe.

It is not dug as in the mines of tin and coal in England, but torn up by powder. This operation is performed every day at noon, and is one of the most tremendous it is possible to conceive. We arrived at the mouth of the great mine, which is nearly half an English mile in circumference, in time to be present at it. Soon after twelve o'clock, the first explosion began, which I can compare to nothing so aptly as subterraneous thunder, or a discharge of volleys of artillery under ground. The concussion was so violent as to shake the surrounding earth.

As soon as the explosions were finished, I determined to descend into the mine, though there was no way to do this but in a large deep bucket, fastened by chains to a rope. The inspector, at whose house I had slept the preceding night, took no little pains to dissuade me from the resolution, and pointed out the melancholy accidents that sometimes happen on such occasions. Finding, however, that I was deaf to all his remonstrances, he provided a clean bucket, and put two men in it to accompany me.

I am not ashamed to own that when I found myself suspended between heaven and earth by a rope, and looked down into the deep and dark abyss before me, to which I could see no termination, I shuddered with apprehension, and half repented my curiosity. This, however, was only a momentary sensation, and before I had descended one hundred feet, I looked round on the scene with tolerable composure. It was near nine min

utes before I reached the bottom, it being eighty fathoms, or four hundred and eighty feet deep.

The view of the mine, when I set my foot on the earth, was awful and sublime in the highest degree. The light of day was very faintly admitted into these cayerns; in many places it was absolutely lost, and its place was supplied by flambeaux. I saw beams of wood across from one side of the rock to another, where the miners sat employed in boring holes for the admission of powder with the utmost unconcern, though the least dizziness must have made them lose their seat, and have dashed them to pieces on the rock beneath.

I remained three quarters of an hour in these gloomy and frightful caverns, and traversed every accessible part of them, conducted by my guides. The weather above was very warm, but here the whole surface of the ground was covered with ice; and I found myself surrounded with the colds of the most rigorous winter, amid darkness and caves of iron. In one of these, which ran a considerable way under the rock, were eight wretches warming themselves round a charcoal fire, and eating the scanty subsistence produced from their miserable occupation. They rose with surprise at seeing so unexpected a guest among them; and I was not a little pleased to dry my feet at their fire

There are no less than one thousand eight hundred men constantly employed in these mines, and their pay is only a copper dollar, or about five cents a day. They'