The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps: A Tour Through All the Romantic and Less-frequented "Vals" of Northern Piedmont, from the Tarentaise to the Gries ... With [plates And] Illustrations from the Author's Sketches, Maps [and a Plan], Etc |
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... clear of snow , though he cannot fail to be struck with the wildness and melancholy of the situation , can however but feebly realise the sensations of an unhappy peasant forced to cross in mid - winter , exposed to avalanches ...
... clear of snow , though he cannot fail to be struck with the wildness and melancholy of the situation , can however but feebly realise the sensations of an unhappy peasant forced to cross in mid - winter , exposed to avalanches ...
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... clear , the ascent in full daylight com- paratively easy , and we enjoyed the grateful change from the stifling heat , which was ripening the grapes in the valley of the Rhone below , -to the fresh mountain - air , the rushing torrents ...
... clear , the ascent in full daylight com- paratively easy , and we enjoyed the grateful change from the stifling heat , which was ripening the grapes in the valley of the Rhone below , -to the fresh mountain - air , the rushing torrents ...
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... clear weather far down the southern descent of the pass , the appropriate emblem of that true charity , of the very essence of Christianity , which is here so nobly exemplified . To the southward bleak and jagged pyramids stretched ...
... clear weather far down the southern descent of the pass , the appropriate emblem of that true charity , of the very essence of Christianity , which is here so nobly exemplified . To the southward bleak and jagged pyramids stretched ...
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... clear to the S. , and we therefore determined to try it , though some little time was lost in finding fresh mules , as our muleteer at first declined to go on , having reached home and lighted the pipe of con- tentment . At length he ...
... clear to the S. , and we therefore determined to try it , though some little time was lost in finding fresh mules , as our muleteer at first declined to go on , having reached home and lighted the pipe of con- tentment . At length he ...
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... clear , and promising us a prosperous passage at last , in recompence for our previous bad fortune . We ascended past several little hamlets , the chief of which is Bosses , -- picturesque at a distance as they lay on the hill - side ...
... clear , and promising us a prosperous passage at last , in recompence for our previous bad fortune . We ascended past several little hamlets , the chief of which is Bosses , -- picturesque at a distance as they lay on the hill - side ...
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Aiguille Alagna Alpine Alps Aosta appeared ascent avalanches Barailler beautiful Bernard Biona blue bouquetin bridge Cervin châlets Challant chamois Champorcher Châtillon church climbed clouds Cogne colour Courmayeur Cramont crest crevasses crossed curé dark deep Delapierre descending distance Doire feet foot forest glacier glen gneiss green Gressoney Grivola head height Italian La Thuile larch lofty looked lower Lyskam Macugnaga magnificent mass meadows Mont Blanc Mont Velan Monte Rosa Mora moraine morning mountain side mule narrow night pass pastures path peaks Piedmont pine precipice range reached remarkable rich ridge Rimasco road rocks Roman round Salassi scene scenery seemed seen singular slopes snow Spitze steep stone stream summit Taurini torrent track Turin Val d'Aosta Val d'Ayas Val de Lys Val Ferret Val Sesia Val Tournanche valley Valpelline vast village walls wild winter Zumstein
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