The Alpine guide, Parte 2Longmans, 1869 |
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Pagina 329 - The popular verse quoted above truly declares it to be intolerably hot in summer: from an early hour in the morning until late in the evening...
Pagina 318 - The French army of Marshal Macdonald, who crossed the Splugen between the 27th November and 4th December, 1800, long before the new road was begun, in the face of snow and storm, and other almost insurmountable obstacles, lost nearly 100 men, and as many horses, chiefly in the passage of the Cardinel.
Pagina 158 - Its works extended 12 m. from N. to S. Yet scarcely any portion of it now appears above ground; traces of an amphitheatre, a subterranean aqueduct, which conveyed water from Brauneggberg, 3 m. off, foundations of walls, broken pottery, inscriptions, and coins, have been turned up by the spade from time to time, and its name Sect. I. is preserved in that of the miserable little village of Windisch. " Within the ancient walls of Vindonissa, the castle of Habsburg, the abbey of Königsfeld, and the...
Pagina 248 - Carriages and horses may be hired here.' ' Below Crodo the carriage - road crosses the river twice before it reaches San Marco, and then enters the Simplón road, at the lofty and beautiful bridge of Crevola, near the new cemetery, at the junction of the Vedro with the Tosa.
Pagina 158 - Vindonissa, the most important settlement of the Romans in Helvetia, as well as their strongest fortress on this frontier, on which they placed their chief dependence for maintaining this portion of their empire. Its works extended 12 m.
Pagina 131 - ... he retired from the world into the remote valley of Melchthal, where he passed his time as a hermit in a humble cell, in exercises of piety. His reputation, however, for wisdom as well as virtue, was so high that the counsellors of the confederacy flocked to him in his solitude to seek advice, and his sudden appearance before the Diet at Stanz and his conciliating counsels prevented the dissolution of the confederacy. After enjoying the respect of men during his lifetime, he was honoured after...
Pagina 131 - There is one picture, however, better than the rest, of Nicholas von der Flue, one of the worthies of Switzerland, more particularly respected in this canton, where effigies of him abound. He enjoys the rare reputation of a patriot, and at the same time, a peace-maker, having spent his life in allaying the bitterness and dissensions between his countrymen, which, at one time, threatened the destruction of the Helvetian Republic.
Pagina 181 - ... the Pragel (Rte. 75) for a short distance above Muotta, but diverges from it to cross the first bridge over the river. From the bridge it strikes straight S. up the mountains; and, having ascended in that direction for a little while, turns off towards the W., away from the entrance to the Bisi Thai. The ascent is continued obliquely up a steep broken slope, till the path arrives eventually upon the wooded edge of a chasm, in which the invisible stream, which issues from the high valley leading...
Pagina 82 - Hospice and on the rocks surrounding the lakes, but even tip to and above the summit of the Pass, indicating by the direction of the furrows that the vast mass of ice that once filled the head of the Valley of Hasli must have flowed over the Grimsel Pass towards the Valais. Neither will he fail to remark the contrast between the rough and jagged outlines of the upper ridges, that have never undergone the planing action of the glacier, with the condition of those parts which lay below the level of...