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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... half - frozen , by the exertions of the monks . On this our second visit , as it was the beginning of August , the pass was clear , the ascent in full daylight com- paratively easy , and we enjoyed the grateful change from the stifling ...
... half - frozen , by the exertions of the monks . On this our second visit , as it was the beginning of August , the pass was clear , the ascent in full daylight com- paratively easy , and we enjoyed the grateful change from the stifling ...
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... half a dozen words of their language are recoverable , and , as Niebuhr says , the narrow limits of history embrace only the period of their decline as a nation . " Here however we know from concurrent testimony that they erected an ...
... half a dozen words of their language are recoverable , and , as Niebuhr says , the narrow limits of history embrace only the period of their decline as a nation . " Here however we know from concurrent testimony that they erected an ...
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... their hideous vacant stare ; half - clad children , who had trudged up with bleeding feet ; and miserable infants , clinging to their mothers , who were disfigured by blue - veined bloated 20 CHAP . I. VAL DU GRAND ST . BERNARD .
... their hideous vacant stare ; half - clad children , who had trudged up with bleeding feet ; and miserable infants , clinging to their mothers , who were disfigured by blue - veined bloated 20 CHAP . I. VAL DU GRAND ST . BERNARD .
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... half a century ago . A good quaigh , or wooden bowl of " potage , " with black rye - bread shred into it , was handed round to every one alike , after that a ration of bread and cheese , and then to each a couple of glasses of red wine ...
... half a century ago . A good quaigh , or wooden bowl of " potage , " with black rye - bread shred into it , was handed round to every one alike , after that a ration of bread and cheese , and then to each a couple of glasses of red wine ...
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... half . On the southern side of the summit , numbers of brilliant flowers studded the scanty herbage , and almost under the snow on the black soddened soil , large patches of the fringed lilac flowers of the little Soldanella alpina ...
... half . On the southern side of the summit , numbers of brilliant flowers studded the scanty herbage , and almost under the snow on the black soddened soil , large patches of the fringed lilac flowers of the little Soldanella alpina ...
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Alagna Alpine Alps ancient Aosta ascent avalanches baggage Barailler beautiful Bernard blue bouquetin bridge châlets Challant chamois Châtillon church climb clouds Cogne colour Courmayeur Cramont crevasses crossed curé d'Ossola dark deep Delapierre descending distance Doire Fcap feet foot forest German glacier glen gneiss gorge granite green Gressoney Grivola head height houses Italian La Thuile larch lofty looked lower Macugnaga mass meadows Mont Blanc Mont Velan Monte Rosa Mora moraine morning mule narrow night pass path peaks Piedmont pine Post 8vo precipice range reached remarkable rich ridge Rimasco Rimella road rocks Roman round scene scenery Second Edition seemed seen Sesia singular slope snow steep stone stream summit Taurini torrent track trees Turin Val d'Aosta Val d'Ayas Val d'Ossola Val de Lys Val Sesia valley Valpelline Varallo vast village Vols walls wild Woodcuts Zumstein
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