The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . THE Beposttorj> OF ARTS, LITERATURE, FASHIONS, Manufactures, <§r. THE SECOND SERIES. Vol. V. March 1, 1818. N°- XXVII. PICTURESQUE TOUR OF MOUNT SIMPLON. PLATE 13.—THE BRIDGE OF ST. MAURICE. When the traveller has quittedBoveret, the aspect of the countrytotally changes ; instead of the smi-ling and ever-varying banks of thelake, the road runs along a valleycontracted by the Rhone, and al-most uncultivated, to Sex, an an-cient castle, now forsaken, whichformerly defended the entrance ofthe Valais. The cou
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . THE Beposttorj> OF ARTS, LITERATURE, FASHIONS, Manufactures, <§r. THE SECOND SERIES. Vol. V. March 1, 1818. N°- XXVII. PICTURESQUE TOUR OF MOUNT SIMPLON. PLATE 13.—THE BRIDGE OF ST. MAURICE. When the traveller has quittedBoveret, the aspect of the countrytotally changes ; instead of the smi-ling and ever-varying banks of thelake, the road runs along a valleycontracted by the Rhone, and al-most uncultivated, to Sex, an an-cient castle, now forsaken, whichformerly defended the entrance ofthe Valais. The country afterwardsbecomes more fertile ; it is coveredwith villages, fine meadows, andfruit-trees, through which are seen,on the other side of the Rhone, thesteeples of Aigle and Bex. As you proceed into the Valaisthe mountains rise; the tower ofAix and the Diablerets, from whichissue the salt-springs of Bex, areperceived on the left; and fartheron, the Dent de Morcles, and thatof the south, peaks almost alwayscovered with snow, approach sonear to one another, that they seemto
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