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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... stone steps , into the landing , lighted by a dim lamp . At a couple of tolls on the great bell hanging above , a blaze of cheerful light shines dazzlingly for a moment through an opening door , and a monk in Augustine habit bids you ...
... stone steps , into the landing , lighted by a dim lamp . At a couple of tolls on the great bell hanging above , a blaze of cheerful light shines dazzlingly for a moment through an opening door , and a monk in Augustine habit bids you ...
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... stones , and catching what sun there is when it shines , forms the only level bit of promenade the monks have outside ... stone cross , simple and massive , mounted on a plain square base . It is inscribed " Deo Optimo Maximo , " and is ...
... stones , and catching what sun there is when it shines , forms the only level bit of promenade the monks have outside ... stone cross , simple and massive , mounted on a plain square base . It is inscribed " Deo Optimo Maximo , " and is ...
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... stone , covering a limpid little spring , which marks the often contested boundary dividing the Val d'Entremont on the N. from the Val d'Aosta on the S. A line is drawn across its rounded surface , and on their respective sides it bears ...
... stone , covering a limpid little spring , which marks the often contested boundary dividing the Val d'Entremont on the N. from the Val d'Aosta on the S. A line is drawn across its rounded surface , and on their respective sides it bears ...
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... stone roof . Luckily hunting up a rude pair of pincers , I made the guide draw a nail from each of the other three shoes , and , with the help of my geological hammer , we made the fourth sufficiently secure to reach the first village ...
... stone roof . Luckily hunting up a rude pair of pincers , I made the guide draw a nail from each of the other three shoes , and , with the help of my geological hammer , we made the fourth sufficiently secure to reach the first village ...
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... stones . The year before , 1854 , the glacier had touched this stone ; now it had receded 50 yards from it ; while five years previously , 1849 , Otto assured me - difficult as it seemed to credit it , had not his account been confirmed ...
... stones . The year before , 1854 , the glacier had touched this stone ; now it had receded 50 yards from it ; while five years previously , 1849 , Otto assured me - difficult as it seemed to credit it , had not his account been confirmed ...
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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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