. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Ax Cernisco SuL Naviglio. From tight to left. C;ount Visconli, Dr. Triaca. Miss Valentina Visconli. ful. A little farther we see men carry- ing fire wood, in panniers, on their backs, down a steep slope. ' We cross tunnel after tunnel, 80 of them, bridges, between Lucerne and Bellin- zona. The line enters a narrow gorge; the torrents flow hundreds of feet be- low the track ; the air gets cool and the snow begins to show above us. We stop 8 minutes at Goeschn n, near the mouth of the big tunnel. Every cottage has a monster of a mountain behind it,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Ax Cernisco SuL Naviglio. From tight to left. C;ount Visconli, Dr. Triaca. Miss Valentina Visconli. ful. A little farther we see men carry- ing fire wood, in panniers, on their backs, down a steep slope. ' We cross tunnel after tunnel, 80 of them, bridges, between Lucerne and Bellin- zona. The line enters a narrow gorge; the torrents flow hundreds of feet be- low the track ; the air gets cool and the snow begins to show above us. We stop 8 minutes at Goeschn n, near the mouth of the big tunnel. Every cottage has a monster of a mountain behind it, threatening to fall upon it. Indeed we see where big avalanches of snow have cut everything down in their path. It is an sight. We buy postals representing half a dozen flashing views, but not more flashing than the sights we have before us. But people live and rear children there, little folks who perhaps don't realize that there is any spot in the entire world more level than this chaos. As we start with two locomotives, we see several automobiles arrive on the road across the torrent. They keep up fairly well for a few minutes, as the road and track are running in a parallel line. But all at once we plunge into the big tunnel and lose sight of them entirely. In a very short time we are out again, but headed north instead of south. The line makes several loops as it ascends into the St. Gothard. At eacl^loop, the train takes a peep in the open, a little higher than before. In each case we see the previous entrance below our feet. We finally get into the heart of the mountain and spend 15 or 20 minute^ under ground. All at once the speed increases. We have passed the high point and are going down hill towards the south side. As we emerge into Italian Switzerland, the view is changed again. The cottages are of white stone, with dark stone roofs. The fences are all made of thin, flat, tall stones about 18 inches wide and 5 or 6 feet long, stuck on end, side by side. V
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