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excellence, the spectacle of tbe day. As we rose towards tbe Col, tbey rose beside us, an entire ränge of bare peaks and mural precipiees, grand enongb for any Alpine land- scape. It migbt bave been tbe clouds, or it might bave been' tbe slant of thè plateau, that bid tbeir greater neigh- Louis on tbe north ; but certain it is, thcse last did not come into eompetition. Ab out half way up tbe ascent, tbe

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their fourteen miles’ walk, were sorely in need. And then, the grenadier was in the kitchen 1 too surely we recognised that ponderous voice. He and the others had clattered in about an hour after us, had received their pay and largess, and we hoped by this time were fairly tired out. But the firn was beginning : Laufen had assembled to welcome Sulzbach. The grenadier was great that night; some Laufen hero was there to match him, and he rose in glory as the clock went round. Xt will he long

remembered by them—and by us. Churchill was for making desperate in cursion upon thè company with an appeal to the sacredness of the night-cap ; but who could hope to stay victory in its tide of conquest ? who the flow of those mighty bumpers ? So we turned and grinned upon our pillows, and discussed our sorrows through the wainscot. In the morning, to add insult to injury, thè cost of thè entertainment appeared footed to thè bill, whereat our wrath rose so high that the landladv discreetly withrlrew the

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, far beneatb# appeared Unter Preth. How the road should acide ve thè descent to it was a mar vel, or, having reached it, in what direction it wonld seek an exit ; for opposite, and barring all progress southward, rose one of the most stupendone rocky walls that bad ever met our eyes. Tier above tier it rose, crowned by a long serrated summit, and cireling round eastward as if to attach itself to the Mangert on our left, whose height it almost equalled. It bears the name of the Sebnik. It was a pity

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entered and muttered a words of invocation. From this point the track skirted Uie edge 0 £ £-j le c (J ra } 7ert ? — a ruinous, desolate-looking ^ e pth, in which the torrent of the Gr&niitz raved. Directly °Pposite, the bare crags of the inany-peaked Gärtner rose P l ' e cipitously to the height of 7,200 feet, scored in the ^tervals between the peaks with Jong linee of débris. ^°mpe]led to follow the edges of the Graben, the track ^vas very circuitous, but fmally an alp, or spur, was reached ’d tfie

foot of the actual peaks, occupied by a few miserable ^enn hiitte, and known as the Kühwege Alp. Mainly on Uie north slopes of this alp was the Wulf mia found; at fil 'st singly^ but further on in large masses, partly in the sll ade of pine trees, and partly in the open. Thonsands r F sterns rose up withìn a comparatively smaJl area, and s °ores of colonies in ewig and threes—often of young piante—were scattered sporadically aroimd over a muck

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points. Beyond these to the south rose up the isolated loffcj summits of thè granite Cima d’Asta (9,200 feet), an island during the Trias period, when the whole of South Tyrol was covered bj thè sea. In thè far dista,nee glim- mered in the sun the snow-fields of the Adam elio, on the boundary line between Tyrol and Lombardy. This ridge of the Monzoni has become classic ground to the mineralogists of Europe, A mighty mass of syenite has bere beeil upheaved, itself intersected with numerous dykes

or hypersthene, has come into contact with the sedimentary rocks on either hand. The most interesting fact remains. Opposite me, to the north, rose thè lofty green slopes of thè Col pelle and Bufaure Gebirge, a smiling contrast to the bare Dolomitic precipices on the easfc and south, and rising to an equa! height with my present point of view. But geology teils us of anoiker contrast between these slopes and their boundary-walls. It affirms that tbey form a mighty mass of volcanic ash, and that their base

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, whence it might be followed tili the brink of the great precipice over Al leghe should be reacbed. A good climber on a fine day would be rewarded. That temporary gleam and space of drifting blue did us one rare Service, For an habe thè Pelmo, far more striking bere thaii the Civita, rose ciear above the near green slopes of the valley north ward—rose like some dream of Martin’s —all but the very battlements free from cloud ; a pale salmon-tinted, glistening mass, sbooting upward from its hidden base

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behind thè chureh, leading towards thè head of thè va]lev. It is surprising how soon a village slnks beneath your feet as you rise on these steep-sided hills. In a few xninutes we were on equal terms with thè eock on thè top of thè steeple ; in a few more, Caprile was only a eluster of roofs by thè side of its wasteful stream. But as we rose, so rose Monte Civita, in presence greaf and wonder- ful, and bidding us a proud farewell. In half an hour our men halted on a bit of level sward, and

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, its lords were known as migbty men of war. It reached its highest glory under Captain Georg, son of Ulrich and a Swabian heiress wbose vast dowry tended to raiso thè lustre of thè house. Georg von Freundsberg entered thè career of arms in early youth, and rose to he a general at an age when other men are making their preini'ei'es armes. At four-and-twenty, he was reckoned by Charles Quint his most efficient leader. Over the Swiss, over the Venetians, wherever he led, he was victorious. The victory

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to the altar steps, but they gave way like \ wax ; and he sank lower and lower, tili he called to the priest to täte j the fearful Hast back from him.’ ‘And what became of time I asked. 1 ‘He weilt into the monastery of Stamms, and lived a life of penane©, But Ms lady was worse than he: when they told her what had taten ; place, she swore she would not believe it; “ As well might you teil 1 me,” she said, and stamped her foot, “ that that withered stalk could ; produce, a rose and even as she spoke

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Indeed, thè more we thought about it, tlie more Cortina rose in our estimation. Excellent quarters, and a fine, open clieerful valley to begin with. And then, what mountains ! That obelisk-shaped Antelao, at thè southern end, how grandly he lifted himself ten thousand feet or so into the sky ! And thè Croda Malcora, impendi ng over thè town on the east, and said to display somewhere the finest precipice scenery in Europe—though too jealous of the honours of Monte Civita, to admit all that—yet

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rose, now and again, into thè sky, and every jagged rock at band took sndden skape, and vanisked. To our comfort tke distant storm seemed to die away ; but quickly it flared out again, and thunder, rolling like a ckariot over tke dark Norie hilis, sent tkrougk ns a thrill of alarm. Every peal urged us onward; for tke climb was now not only exhausting, but perilous. Presenfly a wind began to draw down from above—a welcome sign that tke summit was not far distant. Unluckily it blew out tut

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scape ; and thougli familiär with that portion of them whicli lines tlie upper Save on the north, their inferiority there to the opposite Julian Alps deprived them of the attention they deserved. Farther to thè east they are more imposing: the Stou was a fine object from the Lake of Veldes ; the Loibl Pass Crossing them lower down is noted for ita scenery ; and bere there rose before ns the partially-veiled form of thè G-rintouz, a truly noble spectaele. Tliis mountain answers on the Western

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loungers—not torn iste, and yet scarcely peasants—indicated an appToaeh to somewhere ; but it was not tili within a few yard® of the building itaelf that the humble hath-house of Ratzes carne in sight, jarnmed dose under the preeipices of the Schiern to the right ; while on the left rose the sides of the Seisser Alp,.a thick mais of wood. The only open space was the

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.’ The first leads to the base of the Oistriza, the seeond to the Skuta Vrh, the third to the Merslagora Vrh. The Grintouz Stands be- yond these outworks of the great citadel. The middle hranch is thè trae head of the valley, and contains the source of the Sann. From our station on the heights of St. Leonhard, we looked directly down upon, and along, the seeond and third of these vast troughs or hollows. out of which the mountains rose with a wave-like sweep, rearing crest above crest, and soaring

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old balla about ? Àt half-past seven thè Angelus bell seni ita trembling tones tbrougb tbe air, Tben tbe priest dropt hi© coat-tails, bis compariion rose from bis seat, and tbe party broke up ; but none for chureh except tbe reverend gentlemen. Rigolato bangs upon one of several promontori es tbrust from tbe side of a valley, so steep and deep below, so

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valley of thè Livinallongo, and over an intervening ridge, rose thè Marmolata, white with snow and glacier ; at the upper end of the valley stood thè Dolomitic mass of the Sella Spitze, closing it entirely in that direction ; and at the lower, filling up tire vista, the noble shape of thè Civita, soaring clear and free, with lovely Alleghe set like an emerald below. Woods and crags, and jutting cottage- roofs, formed the nearer view. You must elimb the bleak pass through hours of rain, and turn

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on 4 Steigeisen,’ they ascended the glacier obliquely, tili they struck npon a trough in its surface leading upward in a south-westerly direction. It led to a massive rock wall, reddish-hrown in colour, which, beginning with thè Punta Serranta, rose up in the wildest forms, sometimes in pointed peaks, sometimes broken by deep fissures, tili it soared alo ft in the highest peak of thè Marmolata itself. At the foot of this rock wall they climbed a steep face of néve, and found themselves at last tipon the rocky

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We must push on to St, Veit fi ve miles further, regaining the high road there, through another rough country way. But if we leffc the lake disappointed, our spirits soon rose again, for in a mile or two there shot unmistakably into view the famed 4 Hoch Osterwitz ? on its conical hill, with a crown of towers glittering in the sun. That was cl early the excursion for the morning. Hext to Friesach, St, Veit is the oldest town in Carinthia, once its capitai, the court city of the old dukedom

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than positive, The patii along the sunny northern side of the valley was carried, for the most parfc, upon a treeless and block-scattered slope. Certain massive, slab- faced mountains, hidden in the sun-glare, rose opposite on the south; but it was long before Monte Canino, the c ulmin ation of the Flitscher Gebirge, was fairly seen at the valley head, To art surprise it bore little trace of thè

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white spire of a villane churcb, perched upon a genfle slope, with a pine wood for background, and to the left rose the bulky mass of the Dohratsch in profile, its own rieh tints intensified by the vermilion hues of sunset, The wliole scene was a perfect picture, and we turnecl from it only when sober twilight reminded ns we were a long way from our inn.

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