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Geography, Travel guides
Year:
1864
¬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
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Page 456 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
One more excursion from Caprile I must put before the reader, That spiry wonderful Civita, whtch looks like one vast sbattered wall : is it ready a wall ? or is there a long slope at thè back by whicb it could be ascended ? Pelle grini said it was unscalable. The St. Yito landlord, on the contrary, thought it might be ascended from the Val di Zoldo, This valley, opening at Longarone towards the Belluno country, penetrates by various choking gorge« and platforms of verdure, to a point midway

between tbe Pelmo and Civita. We had seen every side of the Pelmo but this ; we had seen no side of thè Civita but tbat from Caprile ; it was an object therefore to explore that portion at least of the Val di Zoldo. It might he reached in four hours over thè Col Dai from Caprile. Bear mother Pezze there was no douht would take abundant care of S and A during our absence, and on 'VVednesday afternoon, with lively hawk-nosed Pelle grini, and yonng Pezze, as a volunteer, we took—not the road but the path

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Category:
Fiction
Year:
1876
Holidays in Tyrol : Kufstein, Klobenstein and Paneveggio
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Page 307 of 385
Author: White, Walter / by Walter White
Place: London
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Physical description: XVII, 361 S. : Kt.
Language: Englisch
Subject heading: g.Tirol ; s.Urlaubsreise ; f.Belletristische Darstellung
Location mark: II A-4.164
Intern ID: 155553
see openings among the trces, and storry slopes, and other characteristic features. But look again wlien tlie sun is dropping in thè west ; the ridges are softened and so blended that, save for the faint haze in the intervening valleys, it would not he easy to individualize them. In the ample sliadow the forest seems unhroken and impcnetrable, where the eastern sun saw glades and gaps innutnerahle. As a great promontory, Dos Basso bulgcs into the valley below the meadow ; and no soonor does

it hide the sun, than a curve of sliadow hegins tö form, until Stretching all across it grows every minute darker, in stränge contrast to the heights which still catch the brightness, Often, on fine days, bave I seen a lieap of mist driffc slowly into sight round the rough base of Dos Sasso. On it moves up the yalley as if taking the course of the torrent for its path. At times it pauses, and remains absolutely motionless for half an liour, and then gradually melts away. What produces the dcad

stillness in that particular spot ? Sometimes the mist appears as smoke clinging to the water as it rolls upwards. How is it that the driffc is always up the yalley ? and where do the heaps of mist come from Ì Sometimes a heap seems to ' hesitate wliile doubling Dos Basso ; shows its profile, then witlidraws ; appears onee more, again retires ; and then, after a while, peeps over the hreast of thè big bill, and fioats away into the blue. The slope of firs, on the opposite side of the yalley, serves

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