ISBN: 1236388380

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ISBN: 1236388380

[EAN: 9781236388384], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], SETH WILLIAM STEVENSON,WORLD,FRANCE,GERMANY,ITALY,NETHERLANDS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 122 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in.… Plus…

[EAN: 9781236388384], Neubuch, [PU: RareBooksClub], SETH WILLIAM STEVENSON,WORLD,FRANCE,GERMANY,ITALY,NETHERLANDS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 122 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.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. 1827 Excerpt: . . . torrent called Trient gives its name, we entered a chall, serving for an inn, where a respectable hostess furnished us with welcome and comfortable refreshment: f Cheese from mountain dairies prest, Wholesome herbs, nutritious roots, Honey from the wild bees nest, Cheering wines and ripend fruits. T o these were added new-laid eggs and excellent bread and butter; a meal relished by us infinitely above the price paid for it, after exposure for two hours to a scorching sun. Proceeding by a bridge of very rude carpentry, over the rushing waters of the Trient, we ascended the Tte Noire, through its gloomy forests of enormous larches. The road, if road it may be called, is composed of great stones and trunks of trees, that serve rather to intercept than to form a passage. Yet our mules carried us safely through this frightful way, where broken timbers flung down by avalanches mingle themselves with huge fragments of rock, and impending over-head seem ready to drive us down a continued declivity, at times so steep as to hide from us the bottom of the abyss, at others exhibiting its horrible depth, just perhaps as the animals we are riding, take their sharp turn at the extremest verge. For some miles we trod the unguarded edge of a via mala, looking into a ravine at least two thousand feet below us! We traversed this indescribable region in one of the finest PASSAGE or run rnre NOIRE. 213 afternoons I ever beheld. The beautiful associated with the terrific; desolation and loveliness, sterility and luxuriance, offered themselves by turns, and even within the same glance, to our enraptured sight. As the evening approached, one line of hills extended its shade across the valley and half way up another r. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 1236388380

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ISBN: 9781236388384

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