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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... stone steps , into the landing , lighted by a dim lamp . At a couple of tolls on the great bell hanging above , a blaze of cheerful light shines dazzlingly for a moment through an opening door , and a monk in Augustine habit bids you ...
... stone steps , into the landing , lighted by a dim lamp . At a couple of tolls on the great bell hanging above , a blaze of cheerful light shines dazzlingly for a moment through an opening door , and a monk in Augustine habit bids you ...
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... stones , and catching what sun there is when it shines , forms the only level bit of promenade the monks have outside ... stone cross , simple and massive , mounted on a plain square base . It is inscribed " Deo Optimo Maximo , " and is ...
... stones , and catching what sun there is when it shines , forms the only level bit of promenade the monks have outside ... stone cross , simple and massive , mounted on a plain square base . It is inscribed " Deo Optimo Maximo , " and is ...
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... stone , covering a limpid little spring , which marks the often contested boundary dividing the Val d'Entremont on the N. from the Val d'Aosta on the S. A line is drawn across its rounded surface , and on their respective sides it bears ...
... stone , covering a limpid little spring , which marks the often contested boundary dividing the Val d'Entremont on the N. from the Val d'Aosta on the S. A line is drawn across its rounded surface , and on their respective sides it bears ...
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... stone roof . Luckily hunting up a rude pair of pincers , I made the guide draw a nail from each of the other three shoes , and , with the help of my geological hammer , we made the fourth sufficiently secure to reach the first village ...
... stone roof . Luckily hunting up a rude pair of pincers , I made the guide draw a nail from each of the other three shoes , and , with the help of my geological hammer , we made the fourth sufficiently secure to reach the first village ...
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... stones . The year before , 1854 , the glacier had touched this stone ; now it had receded 50 yards from it ; while five years previously , 1849 , Otto assured me - difficult as it seemed to credit it , had not his account been confirmed ...
... stones . The year before , 1854 , the glacier had touched this stone ; now it had receded 50 yards from it ; while five years previously , 1849 , Otto assured me - difficult as it seemed to credit it , had not his account been confirmed ...
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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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