¬The¬ Dolomite Mountains : excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863 ; with a geological chapter and pictorial illustrations from original drawings on the spot
Page 91 of 600
Author:
Gilbert, Josiah ; Churchill, George C. / by Josiah Gilbert, and G. C. Churchill
Place:
London
Publisher:
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
Physical description:
XX, 576 S. : Ill., Kt.
Language:
Englisch
Subject heading:
g.Dolomiten ; f.Reisebericht 1861-1863
Location mark:
II A-4.101
Intern ID:
134614
slope, the Alpine garden quiekly disappearing under their scythes. They had come from Salzburg, and complained that the last two months had been unusually wet, In the evening the inevi- table lean fowl and bread, without vegetables, awaited me at Campitello. The reader will have prohably already inferred that I shirk ice-work, and am not a member of the Alpine Club ; my willingness to ascend ceases with the disappearance of the last phanerogamous specimen. The snow and ice region of thè Marmolata
I thercfore leave untouched, but it is in good hands : a late president of the Alpine Club having long ago made it his own, and we may hope some day to welcome from his pen a füll description of its features,* T&king a porter, I left Campitello the next morning for Vigo, the principal village of thè upper Fassa, and about aix or seven miles lower down. On this route the great objecta of interest axe almost out of sight. The crags and pinnadea of the same Rosengarten Dolomites, at the foot of whieli Vigo
lies, are hid beliind the long slopes of the half-grassy, half-rocky spinea that project forwayds from their base. The Bella Spitze and thè Marmolata disap- * Ia the ith ehapter -will be fonnd an aocannt of a receti t ascent, of the Marmolata by Herr Grohaiann, à membor of thè Vienna Alpine. Club-
