Austria-Hungary . line touches at Mallnitz and runs high abovethe Moll valley dotted with huts and cottages,which show up like toy dwellings from the heightsabove. From the station Obervellach climbers canascend the Great Glockner. Once again by tunnelsand viaducts, and an ever-changing panorama ofmountain and valley, it reaches Spittal-Millstat-tersee, the station for Millstattersee, a lake whichbathes the wooded hills of the Spittal to Villach the trains run over thelines of a private company, the Sudbahn. Thisrailway deserves a special note. It is part of theline from V
Austria-Hungary . line touches at Mallnitz and runs high abovethe Moll valley dotted with huts and cottages,which show up like toy dwellings from the heightsabove. From the station Obervellach climbers canascend the Great Glockner. Once again by tunnelsand viaducts, and an ever-changing panorama ofmountain and valley, it reaches Spittal-Millstat-tersee, the station for Millstattersee, a lake whichbathes the wooded hills of the Spittal to Villach the trains run over thelines of a private company, the Sudbahn. Thisrailway deserves a special note. It is part of theline from Vienna to Trieste, and was engineeredby Karl von Ghega, an Austrian who had visitedAmerica to study the problems connected with hiscraft. It was built at a time of great commotionand disturbance in the monarchy, 1848-50, and isamazing in itself with its tunnels and viaductsand cuttings and embankments even at this time,but when considered as a feat performed in theearly days of railway-making is a positive STYRIA : THE GRIMMING, FROM PURGG BOHEMIA AND OTHER LANDS 151 Sixteen thousand men were employed on themaking, and the blasting of rock-work was mistakenat Vienna for the cannon of an army of insurgents !Villach is a town which forms an excellentcentre, being on the lines connected with Vienna,Venice, Botzen, and Meran. From here there areviews of the glacier-covered Ankogel and othermountains in the Seebach valley. Through theKarawanken Alps we come down into the atmo-sphere of the Mediterranean, and find everythingmore advanced and smiling than on the northernside. Here we are in Carniola. The line crossesthe Save valley by a viaduct 165 metres long, runsthrough a tunnel, and eventually reaches Veldes—another health resort—with a castle standing highabove a lake. Other tunnels follow, and at lastwe come to the Wocheiner See, lying in a deeply cutcleft and most wonderfully situated. This gives itsname to the last of the Alpine tunnels, that throughthe Julian Alps
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