ISBN: 9781231115817

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 248 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Plus…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 248 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: . . . in the whole amphitheatre of the central Alps (2). Emerging from this gloomy defile, the road taverses for two leagues the open and smiling valley of Schams; it next ascends by a winding course the pine-clad cliffs of La Rofla, and at length reaches in a narrow and desolate (1) Duin. v. 151, 161. Sec Gibbon, chap-i. Jom. and horror any icene in the Alps. Tberc is no JUv. 146, 117. single pass in the Simplon, Mont CenU, the Great (2) Personnl observations. Hum. V. 151. Ebe!. St. -Beroard, the tittle St. -Beroard, the St. -Gotnard, Art. Via. Mala. the lWmhirclin, the Brenner, or the Col de Tcnde, The tlrCile of the Via Mala is not so celebrated as which cm stand in comparison. It approaches more its matcbless features deserve; but the admirable nearly to liic savage character of the hreaeh of Bo road which is now conducted throngh its romantic land, or the Circle of Gaharuie in the Pyrenees, but cliffs, an. 1 over the Splngen, must ultimately bring exceeds in stupendons features either of these ex it into more general notice. It exceeds in sublimity tranrdinary scenes. pastoral valley the village of Splugen, situated at the foot of the ascent of the mountain of the same name. Here the road, leaving the waters of the Rhine, which descend cold and clear from the glaciers of Hinter Rhin, turns sharp to the left hand, and ascends a lateral valley as far as its upper extremity, when it emerges upon the bare face of the mountain above the region of wood, and by a painful ascent, often of forty-live degrees elevation, reaches the summit in an hour and a half. This description applies to the old road as it stood in 1800. The new road, over the same ground, is wound gradually up the ascent, with that admirable skill which has rendered the works of the French and Italian e. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

2012, ISBN: 9781231115817

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...in the whole amphitheatre of the central Alps (2). Emerging from this gloomy defile, the road taverses for two leagues the open and smiling valley of Schams; it next ascends by a winding course the pine-clad cliffs of La Rofla, and at length reaches in a narrow and desolate (1) Duin. v. 151, 161. Sec Gibbon, chap-i. Jom. and horror any icene in the Alps. Tberc is no JUv. 146, 117. single pass in the Simplon, Mont CenU, the Great (2) Personnl observations. Hum. V. 151. Ebe!. St.-Beroard, the tittle St.-Beroard, the St.-Gotnard, Art. Via. Mala. the lWmhirclin, the Brenner, or the Col de Tcnde, The tlrCile of the Via Mala is not so celebrated as which cm stand in comparison. It approaches more its matcbless features deserve; but the admirable nearly to liic savage character of the hreaeh of Bo road which is now conducted throngh its romantic land, or the Circle of Gaharuie in the Pyrenees, but cliffs, an.1 over the Splngen, must ultimately bring exceeds in stupendons features either of these ex it into more general notice. It exceeds in sublimity tranrdinary scenes. pastoral valley the village of Splugen, situated at the foot of the ascent of the mountain of the same name. Here the road, leaving the waters of the Rhine, which descend cold and clear from the glaciers of Hinter Rhin, turns sharp to the left hand, and ascends a lateral valley as far as its upper extremity, when it emerges upon the bare face of the mountain above the region of wood, and by a painful ascent, often of forty-live degrees elevation, reaches the summit in an hour and a half. This description applies to the old road as it stood in 1800. The new road, over the same ground, is wound gradually up the ascent, with that admirable skill which has rendered the works of the French and Italian e... Weight:0.99 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 5/9/2012 0:00:00<