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rich plain of Erba. Immediately below Lecco, where the waters of the lake again become the river Adda, a bridge crosses the stream, beyond which the different roads to Milan divide. That which leads to Como is an excellent carriage- road, entering the valley immediately below the high mountain which is opposite to Lecco. After a short passage through this valley, the. prospect opens upon scenes of striking richness and beauty, which are little known to English travellers, and which continue

throughout the journey to Como. The road passes by several beautiful lakes, particularly that of Pusiano, arid at the bases of hills covered with chestnuts and vines, whilst olives, mulberry-trees, Indian com, and other produc tions of a generous soil and climate, cover in profuse abundance this favoured country. Numerous villages, and the towns of Incino* and Erba, inhabited by a fine race of people, are traversed by this road; and the inhabitants of this charming district appear to participate in its

character of prosperity, enjoyment, and repose. The approach to Como presents one of the most beautiful views in which this city is an object: it is seen, far below the vineyards which skirt the road, deeply embosomed in the mountains; the Duomo, and part of the city of Como, are seen bordering upon the lake, which in this view is almost hidden by the surrounding hills. On the left is the monastery of San Salvatore, in a commanding situation; and above Como are its conical bills, surmounted

by castellated ruins. Beyond the hills which surround the lake, the Alps are seeri stretching across the horizon, and conspicuous among these is the beautiful form of Monte Rosaf. Como itself is a place of great interest: its early history, the great men which it has produced, its importance and exposure during the wars of the Middle Ages, render an inquiry into its history one of considerable interest. From Como, the direct road to Milan by Barlasina is dull and monotonous; but * Anciently, Licino Porum

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of mountains that form its southern boundary, and which are surmounted by enormous glaciers, extending to the Bernina, in the Engadine. From Chiavenna, the distance to Riva, at the head of the Lake of Como, is about ten miles. Travellers hasten through the northern part of the lake, to avoid the malaria, which prevails there to a fatal extent. Boats are readily obtained at Riva, by which they can de scend to the Lake of Como. The navigation of the Lake of Riva, the northern part of the Lake of Como

, is dangerous, owing to shallows, which prevent the steam-boats proceeding above Gravedona; at which place, however, they daily arrive from, and return to, Como. A route by the Alps, from Cisalpine Gaul into Rhaetia and Suabia, is one of the four passes of the Alps stated by Polybius as known to the Romans in his time. That some pass across these Alps is of such high antiquity is unquestionable; but it is not possible to determine whether the pass known so early was that of the Bernardin or of the Splugen

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of Indian and other corn are gathered in the year. The Adda is three times crossed in the descent from Son drio to Morbegno, .whence the road continues on the left of the river to Colico, on the lake of Como. On the right of the road, before arriving at Colico, the traveller passes the ruins of a fort, which was built in 1604 by the Marquess of Fuentes, at a time when this part of the country was uirited to the states of Milan. The fort was built on the hill of Montecchio, near the. mouth of the Adda

; but it is so surrounded by deadly marshes, that it has been the grave of more victims to malaria than to war. Colico, the port of the Valteline, on the lake of Como, will probably become, from the great line of communication which has been made with Germany through the Valteline, a place of much importance, particularly since the establish ment of steam-boats on the lake of Como, which secures the navigation of the lake, from one extremity to the other, in four or five hours. But a very

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name of the lake of Lecco, though it is only a branch of the lake of Como. Numerous silk-factories and iron-works give it a commercial importance, which is heightened by its favourable situation in the hue of the new road to the Valteline. The produce of its environs, the olive, the mul berry-tree, and the vine, are sources of manufacture and commerce. The - situation of Lecco is highly picturesque, opposite to the base of a high mountain which sinks abruptly to the lake* This mountain is seen not

only from Milan, but from far beyond it on the road to Pavia. From Lecco two roads lead to Milan; one of these, rather the shortest, passes directly through Monza, which has acquired a certain celebrity as the repository of the iron crown of Charlemagne; the other, and by far the most interesting route, lies through Como by. the

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place two roads branch off to Milan; the one by Monza, the other by Erba and Como. The new road is not less interesting to the engineer than to the politician. The great height to which it was necessary to carry the road, the summit of the passage being 9091 English feet above the level of the sea, — the nature of the ground over which it has been constructed, and the narrow and dangerous defiles, now sheltered by galleries, beneath which the traveller passes in safety,—presented difficulties

loosened by frost, or detached by avalanches from the mountains which bound the Pass of the Stelvio, sweep across the zig-zag terraces of the upper part of the road. The scenery throughout the route from Botzen to Milan, which the author now proposes to illustrate, is rich and varied, abounding in the sublime, the beautiful, and the picturesque, from the glaciers of the Ortler-Spitz to the shores of the lake of Como, and through the rich valleys of the Adige and the Adda. Botzen is situated in the

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and unchristian assumption of temporal power by the Bishops of Como and Coire subjected the wretched inhabitants of Chia- venna, the Valteline, and Bormio, to the sufferings which their feuds occasioned: the causes sometimes varied, but the inflictions continued for centuries; and their political or reli gious relations exposed them to oppression from the monarchial tyranny of distant potentates, or the republican tyranny of their neighbours the Orisons. In 1336, these valleys fell under the

dominion of Azzo Visconti, Duke of Milan ; one of whose successors, in gratitude for some political treachery, ceded his right over these terri tories to the Bishop of Coire. This became the basis of a claim which the Orisons afterwards made to the fealty of the inhabitants of Bormio and the Valteline, and an unsuccessful irruption was made into these valleys by the Orisons in 1487. In 1512, when the whole of the valleys from the Brauglio to the lake of Como fell >vith the Milanese into the power

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¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea

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Tyrol, ROUTE 214. —MILAN TO INNSBRUCK.—COLICO. 301 the lake, had; Isola Bella, higher up, I better), an unhealthy village, on ac count of malaria, near the N* extre mity of the lake, at the foot of the M onte Legnone, whieh rises 7444 ft. above the lake. Colico has a port for boats, which may be engaged here to convey travellers to Como, Lecco, or across the lake. The steamboat, however, from Como ascends twice a day to the upper end of the lake, touching at Domaso, the town opposite, between

12 and 1 o’clock, unless the water of the lake be too low to admit it,, which happens in summer. It crosses over to Colico, and embarks or disem barks a carriage there. Carriages should by no means be intrusted to the unsafe fiat-bottomed row-boats on the lake. It traverses the lake in 3 hrs. to Como, whence a railway runs (from Camerlata Suit. ) to Milan. A little way beyond Colico, in the midst of the marshy plain formed by the deposits of the Adda, the road to Chiavenna ( Germ, Cloven) and the

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branch of the Lake of Como called La go di Lee co, surmounted by moun tains of a very bold and striking out line, The serrated ridge on the E. is well-named II lieseyorie (great saw). The population of Leeco amounts to 8000 souls, and is rapidly on the in crease ; there are manufactures of iron and cotton-twist in the town. At Leeco the road of the Stelvio properly begins. The E, shore of the Como Lake is so very precipitous, bounded by cliffs sinking vertically into the water, that there was no road

lake are of the most enchanting beauty, increasing towards the upper end. The clear sunny sky of Italy, the placid lake, the olive" and odorous citron-groves, and the trellised vine-bowers along its shore, contrast strikingly with the bleak region of bare rock and everlasting snow which the traveller is about to traverse. Bellaggio, at the N. extre mity of the promontory which divides the Lake of Leeco from the Como branch, is universally allowed to be the finest point of view; close to it stand

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by the baths of Sta. Caterma (2f hrs.), over the Como dei Tie Signori to Pejo (8 hrs.) in the y a l del Monte. (Rte. 220.) The Val pedcnos, Viola, or Dentro, from the W.; the Yal Fraele (Vallis Ferrea), from the NAY., up which a circuitous mule- road runs past St Giacomo to St. Maria in the Munsterthal, as well as a shorter path striking across the Passo dei Pas- tori. The 4th valley is that of the Adda, called Braulio, Braglio, or Em broil, which our road ascends. From Bormio, on the Italian side

clog or shoe cannot be procured at Bormio or at Sta. Maria, and there fore the traveller in his own carriage should bring one with him. About 1-2 m. above Bormio, close to the road, is the Hotel of the Baths of Bormio , supplied by hot saline sulphu reous springs, having a temperature of 28° and 38 '' Reaumur, containing GO apartments and 12 marble baths, afford ing much better accommodation than the inns at Bormio; good sparkling- vino d’Asti is to be had at the baths. They are frequented in July

and Aug,, but by the end of Sept, most of the guests are flown, and the hotel is then closed. The baths are supplied through wooden pipes from the springs which rise near the old bathing-house. This stands below the road, on the ]., on the summit of a rock overlooking the Adda. Nearly abreast of this old bath the road crosses a bridge over a deep chasm, and traverses the lsi gallery, called dei Bagni: an obelisk of rock 40 ft, high is left standing beside it. The view looking back over the Val

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ROUTE FROM SPLÜGEN TO THE LAKE OF COMO BY THE PASS OF THE SPLUGEN. After crossing the Hinter-Rhin at the village of Splugen, the road ascends directly from the river, and attains, by a succession of zig-zags, the greatest elevation, which is 6500 English feet above the level of the sea. Unlike the col of the Bernardin, the summit of the Splugen is a narrow crest, whence the road rapidly descends, above 700 feet, to the establishment of the Austrian douane, situated in a sheltered plain, which

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by the base of that gigantic mountain of the Tyrol, the Ortler- spitz, to traverse the Alps at the Pass of the Stelvio, thence it descends to Bormio, and, after following the course of the Adda through the Valteline to Colico, on the lake of Como, sweeps along the shores of the lake to Lecco. From this NO. VI. M

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it passes, the route of the Stelvio is the most remark able in Europe. The galleries cut for miles through the solid rock, along the margin of the Lake of Como—those higher up built of massive masonry, strong enough to resist the fall of ava lanches — the long causeways carried over morasses — the bridges thrown swept away, others overwhelmed with rubbish and fragments of rock—injuries annually occurring ; to he repaired only at a vast expense (11,000 florins a year), and after a lapse of consider able

Como Lake, and its excavated galleries; the gorge of Spondalunga; the splendid view of across torrents —the long succession of I the range of the Qrtler-Spitze, with its MMSg terraces, carried up with so gra- snowy glaciers, seen from the highest dual a slope that an English mail- point of the pass, and the glaciers • coach might trot up on one side, and [ the Tyrolese side, which the travel!* scarce require to lock a wheel on the which, nevertheless, scale and rolling along in ms carriage

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. A grand fête was given on the plain of the mountain, when the inauguration of the obelisk was celebrated ; upon which occasion the prefect of the department caused a medal to be struck, in commemoration of the event. In 1815 an Austrio-Sardinian army, which entered France by this route, allowed the obelisk to remain, but dug out .the tablets, and destroyed the inscriptions, which had been exe cuted at Turin upon slabs of black marble of Como ; each tablet a single .piece of great weight. The same

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Durance, to the Redoute de l’Infernet, on the summit of a mountain. The whole presents a series of defences equal to the local, and surpassing the military, strength of the Fenestrelles. Briançon is a place of great antiquity, mentioned by Strabo, Ptolemy, and Pliny, the last of whom rather strangely attri butes its foundation to some Greeks who were chased from the borders of the Lake of Como; but, however obscure the origin of Briançon may be, the bas-reliefs and medals of the emperors found there

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the road, including the compensation to proprietors on its line, did not amount to 80,000/. sterling. Wood, and common lands, were granted by the government. Formerly the bailliage of Chiavenna was annexed to the Grisons, and free intercourse existed between this canton and the Lake of Como, by the Splugen. The transit of mer chandise was lightly taxed, merely to keep the road in repair, and the Grisons did not feel the necessity of making the route of the Bernardin more practicable than that

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of Sardinia, the intermediate portion is in progress, to make a road, in connexion with the route of the Bernardin, along the shores of the Lago Maggiore. This is undertaken by the King of Sardinia, just as the Austrians are forming a road to connect Milan with the Stelvio, along the shores of the Lake of Como. + Plate the fifth.

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old castle of Retrains, which is in a romantic situation, * The Grisons appreciate so highly these advantages, that they have begun to render the passes of the Julicr and the Maloya traversable for carriages, by a road which will lead from Coire through the Oberhalbstein, the Engadine, and the Val Bregalia, to Chiavenna and the Lake of Como. Ten carriage roads are now completed across the Alps, and others are in the course of formation; and over those barriers which were formerly considered

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. . . -- 6. A. FI. hr. = 10 0 — 0 30 = o sL = 7 48—.50 pfen. — 8 55 = 0 22 = 1 25 = 0 2 3 pfen, 2 0 1 30 0 3 3 pfen. 0 50 0 0 31 pfen. 4 28 2 12 S 89, Railways. § 90. Eilwagex, on Mail Coaches. —Sepakat-Liuvagen, The Austrian territory is intersected with Railways in the following lines*. *T'1 > Vienna to Prague and Dresden, by Brunn and by 01 mutz ; 2, Qlmiitz to Cracow and Breslau ; 3, Vienna to Pressburg, Pest, and Szolnok ; 4, Vienna to Laibach, by Gratz (in progress, to Trieste) ; 5,, Liny to Bmlweis and to Gnniu- den ; o, Milan to Como; 7, Milan

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. 3. The Ortler-spiu, from the summit of the Stelvio Pass. ! 4 . The Baths of Bormio. .7. Sondrio. 6. Lecco. 7. Como, from the road to Erba. 8. The Chateau of Gastenbcll. End Vig nette. 9. Map of the Route from Botzen to Milan, by the Pass of the Stelvio.

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are about 1 Eng. m. shorter than the German. (An Austro-ltalian post contains 7 Italian miles, 60 of which — 1 degree.) From Mals to Inns bruck, the figures express, as in Rte, 213 , Austrian miles. (M.B. In 1854 the Stelvio Pass was in so bad a state as not to be safe— scarcely passable for carriages. But no pedestrian should fail to visit this pass.) From Milan to Como (Camerlata) a railroad is open, 3 trains daily in 1 hr. 20 min. The distances on the ascent and de scent of the pass are not

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