The Central Alps: Including the Bernese Oberland, and All Switzerland Excepting the Neighbourhood of Monte Rosa and the Great St. Bernard; with Lombardy and the Adjoining Portion of Tyrol ...Longmans, Green, 1864 - 502 pagine |
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The Central Alps, Including the Bernese Oberland, and All Switzerland ... John Ball Visualizzazione completa - 1873 |
The Central Alps: Including the Bernese Oberland, and All Switzerland ... John Ball Visualizzazione completa - 1864 |
The Central Alps: Including the Bernese Oberland, and All Switzerland ... John Ball Visualizzazione completa - 1866 |
Parole e frasi comuni
Airolo Aletsch Glacier alpine Amsteg ascent bank Baths Bormio branch bridge called Val Canton carriage châlets char-road Coire crevasses crosses descends described détour difficult Dissentis distance district Engadine Engelberg exclusive of halts excursion farther Finsteraarhorn formed Glacier Glarus glen Gothard Grimsel Grindelwald hamlet head of Val height high road highest Hinterrhein Ilanz Inns Interlaken Joch junction Kandersteg Lago lake last Rte Lauterbrunnen lies Linth lower Lucerne lying main valley Monte moun mountain mounts nearly névé Oberland Olivone opening opposite pass path leads peaks pedestrian picturesque Pizzo plateau Pontresina range ravine Reuss Rhein Rhine Rhone ridge Rigi rocks rough ROUTE Sargans scenery Schwyz seen shore side slopes snow Splügen Stachelberg steamer steep strangers stream summit Swiss Switzerland tain Thal thence Thun tion Tödi torrent town track traversed Tschingel upper Val Calanca Viesch village Vorderrhein walk
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Pagina 504 - Owner lettered on the outside, thus preventing injury or loss, as well as lessening the delay in examination abroad. For further particulars, including the forms of Application, Cost of Passport, Visas, &c., see Stanford's Passport Circular, which will be forwarded per post on receipt of One Stamp.
Pagina 152 - 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 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 town of Bruck have successively arisen.
Pagina 500 - ... its commencement, great care has been taken to render the Library in every way worthy of cordial and general support.
Pagina 246 - 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 Cemetery, at the junction of the Vedro with the Tosa.
Pagina 325 - 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 152 - 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 126 - In the vigour of his years 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 life-time,...
Pagina 175 - At this corner the river is again crossed. 1¿ hr. more are requisite before the summit of the pass is attained. As far as some chalets, about half-way up, the path may be traced without much difficulty, as it takes for its guide the falling stream, now reduced to a mere rill. Towards the summit, however, it is faintly marked, and liable to be confounded with other tracks. The stream is left behind, the direction of ascent being towards the south, among little hillocks and hollows filled with snow;...
Pagina 314 - December, 18ЭО, 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 503 - Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers: a Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Edited by JOHN BALL, MRIA, FLS, President of the Alpine Club.