Three Vassar girls in Switzerland . builds up in the world an insuperable wall, but provideseverywhere for his creatures an exit, some way of escape. Wide anddeep from the valley of the Rhone opens the solemn door of the passas for an army to march along. The Pass of the Spliigen stands alone in the ghastly grandeur ofthe Via Mala, or Evil Way, where, betwixt opposing precipices, insome places nearly a third of a mile in height and often only a fewyards apart, extending through a space of more than four miles, themost wonderful engineering has built a road along gulfs which itmight be thought
Three Vassar girls in Switzerland . builds up in the world an insuperable wall, but provideseverywhere for his creatures an exit, some way of escape. Wide anddeep from the valley of the Rhone opens the solemn door of the passas for an army to march along. The Pass of the Spliigen stands alone in the ghastly grandeur ofthe Via Mala, or Evil Way, where, betwixt opposing precipices, insome places nearly a third of a mile in height and often only a fewyards apart, extending through a space of more than four miles, themost wonderful engineering has built a road along gulfs which itmight be thought possible to span with nothing larger than a threadin the mouth of a carrier dove. Surely we can at length pass any-where, out of whatsoever difficulty, if we have been able to passhere. There is one range of mountains before me, said Walker, through which I do not as yet see any pass. I mean my have prepared myself thoroughly as a civil and mining engineer. Ihope to find employment in the western part of the United States,. BARRY, THE BRAVE DOG OF ST. BERNARD. THE GREAT ST. BERNARD AND MONT BLANC. 2 I 5 but as yet the way seems shut by an impenetrable wall. However, Ishall not be discouraged, but look for the pass. You have mentionedthe Pass of the Spliigen. I went over it this summer by diligence,and the awful beauty of the Via Mala fully justifies what has beenwritten of it. Tell me more of that trip, Margaret asked. So much of con-sequence has happened that I have not heard as much as I would likeof your summer wanderings. From the Spliigen I pursued a northeast course through thebeautiful valley of the Engadine to Innsbruck, thence to Salzburg,from which city I made a flying pilgrimage to the lakes of the Tyrol,— the Konigsee, the Obersee, and the Traunsee. At the Salz-Kammergat, one of the most interesting salt-mines in the world, Imet a young Austrian who interested me in some lead-mines inHungary. I had remarked on the terrible condition of the miners,and he t
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