¬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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Autor:
Gilbert, Josiah ; Churchill, George C. / by Josiah Gilbert, and G. C. Churchill
Ort:
London
Verlag:
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
Umfang:
XX, 576 S. : Ill., Kt.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort:
g.Dolomiten ; f.Reisebericht 1861-1863
Signatur:
II A-4.101
Intern-ID:
134614
pursuing thè coping-stones of a wall, sometimes scrambling over rocks and bushes—and so it carne to pass, we scarcely know how, that at last we reached Predazzo, and the com- fprtable inn of Jacomelie, and thè unaceustomed soimd of wheels, and the stränge sight of an omnibus in cor- Tespondence with thè é Strada Ferrata,’ at Trento. A few days after, at Botzen, we learnt, that storni and inundation kad been general tbrough tbe Alps—that thè river Inn had risen twelve feet at Innsbruck, and much
damage had been done. We congratulated onrselves at having escaped so tolerably from the Primiero mountains, hut had no wish to eneo unter their watery perii s again. Predazzo is a great centre of attraction to all German mineralogista. It is to them, what the head of the Gader Thal is to palasontologisfcs, and the Seisser ÀIp, with its rim of Dolomites, to geologists. As we descended the last reaches of road, every wall showed varieties of melaphyr, porphyry, syenite, and granite. Dolomite and
up steeply on all sides, and prevent any distant view, except in the direction of the valley we had just descended. Outside the circle occupied by these rocks we find Dolomite mountains again, standing in isolated masses at three separate points, on a basis of lower trias beds. The late hour at which we reached Predazzo, and our n h
