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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... house Funeral procession Carcofaro - The cure's garden - Cures and reve- nues of Church in Piedmont — Col d'Egua - Lost in mist - Perilous situation - Rescue Scenery of Val Ollocia - Forests - Timber shoot — Festival and illuminations ...
... house Funeral procession Carcofaro - The cure's garden - Cures and reve- nues of Church in Piedmont — Col d'Egua - Lost in mist - Perilous situation - Rescue Scenery of Val Ollocia - Forests - Timber shoot — Festival and illuminations ...
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... house of refuge , founded on the basis of Christianity , and which has justly rendered his name immortal . 66 In the troublous times which subsequently followed , a new race appeared on the Mons Jovis . The Saracens ravaged the Convent ...
... house of refuge , founded on the basis of Christianity , and which has justly rendered his name immortal . 66 In the troublous times which subsequently followed , a new race appeared on the Mons Jovis . The Saracens ravaged the Convent ...
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... house , for , unknown to them , he had formed the resolution of entering the church , in which Suspicions were his ... houses . The night before the wedding Bernard retired to his chamber , prayed for the intercession of his patron ...
... house , for , unknown to them , he had formed the resolution of entering the church , in which Suspicions were his ... houses . The night before the wedding Bernard retired to his chamber , prayed for the intercession of his patron ...
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... châlets dotted the pleasant green meadows ; and at midday , in a narrow pent - up gorge , overhung with thick pine forest , we reached the little cluster of houses of St. Remy , in two hours CHAP . I. 23 DESCENT TO ST . REMY .
... châlets dotted the pleasant green meadows ; and at midday , in a narrow pent - up gorge , overhung with thick pine forest , we reached the little cluster of houses of St. Remy , in two hours CHAP . I. 23 DESCENT TO ST . REMY .
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... houses of St. Remy , in two hours from the Convent . There we were detained for a short time at the Sardinian Douane , by the most civil and really agreeable douaniers it had ever been our fortune to encounter . The compactness of our ...
... houses of St. Remy , in two hours from the Convent . There we were detained for a short time at the Sardinian Douane , by the most civil and really agreeable douaniers it had ever been our fortune to encounter . The compactness of our ...
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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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