The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps: A Tour Through All the Romantic and Less-frequented "vals" of Northern Piedmont, from the Tarentaise to the Gries |
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Page 58
... Polybius , with the object in view of fixing the passage on * History of Piedmont , Antonio Gallenga , vol . i . chap . 2 . Mont Genèvre . This opinion Gallenga also adopts , follow- 58 CHAP . III . VAL DU PETIT ST . BERNARD .
... Polybius , with the object in view of fixing the passage on * History of Piedmont , Antonio Gallenga , vol . i . chap . 2 . Mont Genèvre . This opinion Gallenga also adopts , follow- 58 CHAP . III . VAL DU PETIT ST . BERNARD .
Page 63
... some considerable time , and a detachment of his army would have sufficed for the attack on the city of the * Vol . i . p . 13 . Lib . v . c . 60 . Taurini ( the modern Turin ) , which is within CHAP . III . 63 HANNIBAL'S PASSAGE .
... some considerable time , and a detachment of his army would have sufficed for the attack on the city of the * Vol . i . p . 13 . Lib . v . c . 60 . Taurini ( the modern Turin ) , which is within CHAP . III . 63 HANNIBAL'S PASSAGE .
Page 77
... the dazzling snow - range from Mont Blanc to the Grande Jorasse , Courmayeur at a vast depth below our feet , * Gallenga , vol . iii . p . 93 . with the Val d'Aosta and the dark pyramid of Mont CHAP . III . 77 MONT CRAMONT .
... the dazzling snow - range from Mont Blanc to the Grande Jorasse , Courmayeur at a vast depth below our feet , * Gallenga , vol . iii . p . 93 . with the Val d'Aosta and the dark pyramid of Mont CHAP . III . 77 MONT CRAMONT .
Page 221
... should make the greatest din . * For an account of these singular processional caterpillars , vide Ratz- burg , Die Forst Insecten , vol . ii . t . 8—1 . The storm which we had hurried to escape from all CHAP . IX . 221 CHATILLON .
... should make the greatest din . * For an account of these singular processional caterpillars , vide Ratz- burg , Die Forst Insecten , vol . ii . t . 8—1 . The storm which we had hurried to escape from all CHAP . IX . 221 CHATILLON .
Page 235
... with consent ; that in eighteen cases a feeble opposition was easily over- * Vol . iii . 420. Morelli , Diversi Passagi delle Alpi , p . 17-52 . come ; but that only in seven the mountains were. CHAP . X. 235 FORT BARD .
... with consent ; that in eighteen cases a feeble opposition was easily over- * Vol . iii . 420. Morelli , Diversi Passagi delle Alpi , p . 17-52 . come ; but that only in seven the mountains were. CHAP . X. 235 FORT BARD .
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