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 25
... opposite mountain side , facing the N. , the sunless pine - forests and steep rocks lay cold and gloomy , in the deep shade of the higher crests . While halting near Bosses to look round us , we were delighted by a glorious distant view ...
... opposite mountain side , facing the N. , the sunless pine - forests and steep rocks lay cold and gloomy , in the deep shade of the higher crests . While halting near Bosses to look round us , we were delighted by a glorious distant view ...
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... opposite range on our right is also variously named the Grande Rossère , and Mont Carmet . It is one of the points of tri- angulation in the Ordnance survey , which makes it nearly 11,000 feet , and this part of the ridge may perhaps be ...
... opposite range on our right is also variously named the Grande Rossère , and Mont Carmet . It is one of the points of tri- angulation in the Ordnance survey , which makes it nearly 11,000 feet , and this part of the ridge may perhaps be ...
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... opposite La Saxe , under which the Doire thunders with deafening fury , a gentle ascent leads under the base of Mont Chétif , which is in part composed of loose shale full of small cubical crystals of iron , and the pines which grow on ...
... opposite La Saxe , under which the Doire thunders with deafening fury , a gentle ascent leads under the base of Mont Chétif , which is in part composed of loose shale full of small cubical crystals of iron , and the pines which grow on ...
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... opposite side in face of us rose the Montagne de l'Allée Blanche , capped with a cone of snow , called sometimes Mont Suc - an appropriate name ; " Suc , " in the local patois , the same as " Zuccone , " meaning " baldhead . " Between ...
... opposite side in face of us rose the Montagne de l'Allée Blanche , capped with a cone of snow , called sometimes Mont Suc - an appropriate name ; " Suc , " in the local patois , the same as " Zuccone , " meaning " baldhead . " Between ...
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... opposite they were assembling the cows to the " Ranz des Vaches , " a series of five rows of little hollows in the turf , where the cows to the number of 120 , as I counted them with my telescope , were picketed for milking . It was ...
... opposite they were assembling the cows to the " Ranz des Vaches , " a series of five rows of little hollows in the turf , where the cows to the number of 120 , as I counted them with my telescope , were picketed for milking . It was ...
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