Austria-Hungary . the Ampezzo. Seen throughan opening between two wooded hills, they rise abruptlyfrom behind the intervening plateau of Monte Piana, asif thrust up from the centre of the earth, like a pair oftusks. No mere description can convey, to even the mostapprehensive reader, any correct impression of their out-line, their look of intense energy, of upwardness, of bristlingirresistible force. Two barren isolated obelisks of palesulphurous orange - streaked limestone, all shivered intokeen scimitar - blades and shark-like teeth toward thesummit, they almost defy the pencil and quite def
Austria-Hungary . the Ampezzo. Seen throughan opening between two wooded hills, they rise abruptlyfrom behind the intervening plateau of Monte Piana, asif thrust up from the centre of the earth, like a pair oftusks. No mere description can convey, to even the mostapprehensive reader, any correct impression of their out-line, their look of intense energy, of upwardness, of bristlingirresistible force. Two barren isolated obelisks of palesulphurous orange - streaked limestone, all shivered intokeen scimitar - blades and shark-like teeth toward thesummit, they almost defy the pencil and quite defy thepen. Those who have spent an exhilarating holidayamong these enchanting hills will know the freshnessof the pure air, the stillness of the vast solitudes—home of the eagle and chamois—also the comfort ofthe rude huts provided by the Alpine Club, where onemay shelter and find warmth and food, paying as hedeems right; they will remember days spent on theglittering glaciers with their treacherous slopes, in. THE DOLOMITES 183 view of the ever-changing ever-new outlines of thetempestuous peaks in their grotesque place on earth will ever draw them back as doesthe Dolomites, no other can evoke quite the samesensations as when they gaze on those startlingcontours or catch their breath to see the fieryglow rising over a foreground of blue-black firs. One of the most important of the later improve-ments is the Dolomitenstrasse of which the lastpart was opened in 1909. It leads through beautifulmountain scenery and over three passes from Botzento Cortina, and thence from Cortina to Botzen it follows the Brenner road to Kardaun,and then turns into the magnificent gorge of theEggental which separates the Latemar group fromthe Rosengarten group. This is now one of themost frequented parts of the Dolomites, with thebeautiful blue-green lake of Karer, over which theLatemar towers with its slender peaks. The roadascends over the green Alps of the Karer Pas
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