. Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers. wealth so common tothe age. Almost all the inhabitants belong to the reformed faith; the clergy,whose stipends seldom exceed 1000 fr., occupy their cures for a limitednumber of years only, as appointments for life are prohibited by are usually delivered in the Romansch dialect. Gei-man beingoccasionally employed. The government of this valley is a pure demo-cracy. Next to God and the sun, the poorest inhabitant is the chiefmagistrate, says an old Engadine proverb ; nevertheless certain
. Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers. wealth so common tothe age. Almost all the inhabitants belong to the reformed faith; the clergy,whose stipends seldom exceed 1000 fr., occupy their cures for a limitednumber of years only, as appointments for life are prohibited by are usually delivered in the Romansch dialect. Gei-man beingoccasionally employed. The government of this valley is a pure demo-cracy. Next to God and the sun, the poorest inhabitant is the chiefmagistrate, says an old Engadine proverb ; nevertheless certain noblefamilies, such as the Plantas (p. 330), have for centuries enjoyed a consi-derable influence, which is far from being extinguished at the present day. The elevated plateau of the Maloja fcomp. p. 362), Rom. Moloyia (5961). forms the boundary betweenthe Val Bregaglla and the Engadine. At the summit of thepass is the *Maloja-Jnn. The traveller will l)e amply revvariled by an ^iuu hence to theCavloccio Lake and the Forno Glacier. At the last house of (.j4 hr.) Ordeu. Kmjadine. .SlLb. <!)J. RouU. 327 the Oidtejiia is crossed, and its course ascended as far as the numtli ofa small affluent: then up the gorge to the 1. as far as the (20 min.) saddleof the mountain, and down to the (10 min.) solitary blue Cavloccio Lake,surrounded by lofty mountains. The chalets of Pian Ca/ihi, opposite theMuretto Pass, are reached in 1 br. more; then to the a climb of i/a debris and moraine, to the Forno Glacier, above the precipitous vaultnf its outlet. The traveller should now ascend on the r. side of the glacier(the middle is to be avoided on account of its crevasses), skirting the Cimadel Lavfjo^ and passing near the moraine, to the (2 hrs.) magnificent plateauof the glacier, surrounded by the Cima di Castril, Cima di Cantun, PizzoTorrone. Mte. Sissone, and Cima di Rosso. The Monte Sissoiie, commandinga line view of the Monte della Disgrazia, may be asce
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