Holidays in Tyrol : Kufstein, Klobenstein and Paneveggio
CHÀPTER III. -A. Pernio iscence.—Wonderful Railway.—Clever Engineering.—Patsch.—Stafflach and Falserthal. —Overcoming a Biffieulty.—A fooìish Englishman,—Summit of thè Brenner.—A second Visit.—Cool Confcrast.—Brenner Bath,.—Young Eisack.—Edelweis and frisches Wasser.—The Descent. —The PflerschthaL— Sterzing. —Franzensfeste.— Growls.—-Brixen.—Klausen. — Ingenious Bur- her.—Waidbruck.—Porphyry Gorge.—Kanter and his Way.—The Tcufels- loch.—Breadths of Vines.—Botzen. You perhaps remember, reader
, tbat, in tlie days tliat bave been more tlian once referred to, we walked across the Brenner, with knapsack 011 shoulder, from Sterzing to Innsbruck, and had mudi enjoyment by tbe way, We are now to take tbe journey in thè re verse direction, and, though not on foot, we shall see mudi tbat will give us pleasure and excite our admiration. There is something of tbe won- derfnl in a mountain railway. It triumphs over difficulties tbat seem appalling, and maintains a ceaseless conflict witb tbe forces
of Nature. The able engineer who pianned and constructed tbe greater part of the Brenner railway has left bebind bim, in tbe seventy-nine miles between Innsbruck and Botzen, a noble Monument of bis skill and genius. Three years were spent in thè work, and thè line was opened in 1867. Very soon after leaving Innsbruck our train beging to aseend, Grosses tbe Sill while we catch a glimpse of forest elopes, of a rocky gulf, and rushing water, roars tbrough a two-
