. Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers. very ancient place, which owes its appellation to themonastery founded here in the 6th cent, by St. Romain (RomaniMonasterium). The nuptials of Margaret of Austria and Philibert,Duke of Savoy, were celebrated here in 1502. She had alreadybeen affianced to Louis, Dauphin of France, and to the Infantaof Spain, to which circumstance she jestingly alludes in an epi-taph she composed on herself: Ci ijlt Margot la gente damoisellequa deux maris et si mourut pucelle, etc. The road passes by Vaulion and th
. Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers. very ancient place, which owes its appellation to themonastery founded here in the 6th cent, by St. Romain (RomaniMonasterium). The nuptials of Margaret of Austria and Philibert,Duke of Savoy, were celebrated here in 1502. She had alreadybeen affianced to Louis, Dauphin of France, and to the Infantaof Spain, to which circumstance she jestingly alludes in an epi-taph she composed on herself: Ci ijlt Margot la gente damoisellequa deux maris et si mourut pucelle, etc. The road passes by Vaulion and the base of the Dent deVaulion to the village of Le Pont. Pedestrians leave the highroad 11/2 M. beyond Vaulion and take a footpath to the r.,which ascends to the summit of the Dent in 1 hr.; descent toLe Pont 1 hr. From Orbe by V alio r be to LePont, good road (about the samedistance as by the above route; diligence between Orbe and Ballaiguesonce daily, between Ballaigues and Vallorbe twice daily, but not between>allorbe and Le Pont), a pleasant route gradually ascending, passing through. W4^sv- ^ ^ ^^feK^^ iU^^K,*^ j^fe^^i^-^te^^ ^m^ ^%^, ;: , Su::^.:- u ™**f*-^_, iji PENT DE VAULION 47. Route. 177 tlic villages fif Mvtilr/iirand, La Ilitssille, Lignerolles (fine view), and Bal-taijucs (tine retrospect of Orlie), in a mountain-valley; to flic N. Montd(Ji\ to the S. the Dent de Vaulion. yij- M. Vallorbe (2o2<») ( Maisoii dc Ville), U\z M. from the Sourcesof the Orlie CiOGJ), which {;ush with consideraiilc force from the rficks,and are douhtless the subterranean discharge of the Lac de (secbelow). They may he reached by leaving the road ^J^ M. beyond Vallorbe^and proceedinp to the r. for about iji hr. Rejoininp the road, the tra-veller reaches the summit ot the pass, bounded on the 1. l)y the lofty andprecipitous slope of the Dent de Vaubon tsee below), the summit of whichmay be attained in 1 hr. (fatipuinp ascent of •ja hr. thi-oufih thickets, thenacross mea
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