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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Page 4
... took a farewell look of Monte Rosa , its many summits glittering in the setting sun like a wondrous mass of crystal , we determined to revisit it on the first opportunity . Another and at least equal incitement was the desire to explore ...
... took a farewell look of Monte Rosa , its many summits glittering in the setting sun like a wondrous mass of crystal , we determined to revisit it on the first opportunity . Another and at least equal incitement was the desire to explore ...
Page 6
... took up our quarters at Orsières for the night , and reconciled ourselves to the disappointment by resolving to explore the glaciers of Chermontane from the south side , when in the Val Pellina , and in the mean time cross the Alps by ...
... took up our quarters at Orsières for the night , and reconciled ourselves to the disappointment by resolving to explore the glaciers of Chermontane from the south side , when in the Val Pellina , and in the mean time cross the Alps by ...
Page 19
... took our seats in a quiet corner of the church , where we were gratified to see some fifty peasants already collected at that early hour to perform their devotions before descending the pass . The Superior performed mass at the high ...
... took our seats in a quiet corner of the church , where we were gratified to see some fifty peasants already collected at that early hour to perform their devotions before descending the pass . The Superior performed mass at the high ...
Page 22
... took our way down the Italian side of the pass . We had not descended far towards the Vacherie , when the morning sunburst brightly upon us , and we looked back to the cloud- covered summit , with kindly thoughts of the good monks of St ...
... took our way down the Italian side of the pass . We had not descended far towards the Vacherie , when the morning sunburst brightly upon us , and we looked back to the cloud- covered summit , with kindly thoughts of the good monks of St ...
Page 25
... took the liberty of digging up sundry roots with my alpenstock , and found them quite free from disease , which we heard was generally the case , both in the Valais , and on the Italian side , for the first time for a long series of ...
... took the liberty of digging up sundry roots with my alpenstock , and found them quite free from disease , which we heard was generally the case , both in the Valais , and on the Italian side , for the first time for a long series of ...
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