Guide to Switzerland and the Italian LakesS. Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873 - 170 páginas |
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Página 61 - Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to these eyes Which have not seen the sun so rise For years — I cannot count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score, When my last brother droop'd and died, And I lay living by his side. III. They chain'd us each to a column stone, And we were three — yet, each alone, We could not move a single pace, 50 We could not see each other's face...
Página 123 - GARDA. pleasantly situated at the foot of a hill, on the summit of which is a fine old castle called the Falcon.
Página 77 - Guerison, stands on the righthand side of the way, exactly opposite to the ice ; and another steep descent conducts us again to the bank of the river, which here turns abruptly, after its confluence with the stream of the Val Ferret, into a ravine, cutting the range of the Pain de Sucre. The united streams are passed by a wooden bridge at the Baths of la Saxe, and twenty minutes more brings the traveller to the beautifully situated village of Gourmayeur, after a laborious walk of eleven hours from...
Página 37 - The attention is first arrested by a distant roar, not unlike thunder, and in half a minute, a gush of white powder, resembling a small cataract, is perceived issuing out of one of the upper grooves or gullies ; it then sinks into a...
Página 51 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Página 79 - Ferret, looking back, is certainly one of the finest which I have seen. The prodigious outworks which sustain the mass of Mont Blanc on the southern side are more conspicuous here than from any other point, especially the Mont Peteret, which stands out like a majestic Gothic pinnacle. From hence, as from the Col de la Seigne, we see how far this side of the chain is from being an absolute precipice as it appears when viewed in front, as from the Cramont. The descent of the Swiss Val Ferret to Orsieres...
Página 38 - ... some hundred feet below ; soon after another roar, and a fresh gush from a lower gully, till the mass of ice, reaching the lowest step, is precipitated into the gulf below.