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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... green irrigated by refresh- ing streamlets - they converge and form the Dora Baltea , the Sesia , the Tosa , and finally the Po itself ; which may not inaptly be termed the Gihon , Pison , Hiddekel , 14 CHAP . I. VAL DU GRAND ST . BERNARD .
... green irrigated by refresh- ing streamlets - they converge and form the Dora Baltea , the Sesia , the Tosa , and finally the Po itself ; which may not inaptly be termed the Gihon , Pison , Hiddekel , 14 CHAP . I. VAL DU GRAND ST . BERNARD .
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... green- veined Daplidices , clustering thick on every tiny bloom . Behind us and to the N.W. as we looked back , the wild peaks of the Tour des Fous , the Pain de Sucre , and apparent fields of glacier , struggled fitfully through the ...
... green- veined Daplidices , clustering thick on every tiny bloom . Behind us and to the N.W. as we looked back , the wild peaks of the Tour des Fous , the Pain de Sucre , and apparent fields of glacier , struggled fitfully through the ...
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... green meadows , lately mown , barelegged women were making hay in the picturesque costume of the Val d'Aosta , -a snow - white chemisette fringed with lace , and buttoned round the throat , with an open boddice , very short petticoat ...
... green meadows , lately mown , barelegged women were making hay in the picturesque costume of the Val d'Aosta , -a snow - white chemisette fringed with lace , and buttoned round the throat , with an open boddice , very short petticoat ...
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... green meadows . A brilliantly blue Delphinium of dwarf habit , which we had also seen between Orsières and St. Pierre , here again attracted our admiration for its lovely colour . I never remember seeing it in our gardens , but it would ...
... green meadows . A brilliantly blue Delphinium of dwarf habit , which we had also seen between Orsières and St. Pierre , here again attracted our admiration for its lovely colour . I never remember seeing it in our gardens , but it would ...
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... green meadows , gardens , copse - wood , and corn - fields which run up to the very foot of the glaciers . From the head village of Courmayeur itself , where we had established our quarters , Mont Blanc is not visible , until one turns ...
... green meadows , gardens , copse - wood , and corn - fields which run up to the very foot of the glaciers . From the head village of Courmayeur itself , where we had established our quarters , Mont Blanc is not visible , until one turns ...
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