. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. A LITTLE TOUR IN THE ALPS. i°S small silvery streams, which soon hide in the woods, and by and by are seen in the form of cascades falling, over wide pre- cipices, to be again lost in deep, wet, tortuous stony beds, and presently forming larger cascades near the path of the traveller, who is obliged to cross them by bridges. Then lower down they break and shoot perhaps for three hundred feet, tiU they join the main stream of the valley below, which has cut itself an ever-winding, diving, and foaming bed between terraces, and cliff
. Alpine flowers for English gardens . Mountain plants. Part I. A LITTLE TOUR IN THE ALPS. i°S small silvery streams, which soon hide in the woods, and by and by are seen in the form of cascades falling, over wide pre- cipices, to be again lost in deep, wet, tortuous stony beds, and presently forming larger cascades near the path of the traveller, who is obliged to cross them by bridges. Then lower down they break and shoot perhaps for three hundred feet, tiU they join the main stream of the valley below, which has cut itself an ever-winding, diving, and foaming bed between terraces, and cliffs, and gullies of rock, affording scenes of such infinite beauty and variety that nothing but a visit could convey the faintest notion of Fig. 68.—^The same lower down. We walked twelve miles down the valley before breakfast, and every step revealed a new charm. Before us, a great succession of blue mountains ; on each side, mountain slopes green to the line of blue sky ; behind, all the glory of the Monte Rosa group, in some places flat-topped and of the purest white, like vast un- sculptured wedding cakes—in others dark, scarred, and pointed to the sky, like some of the aged pines of their lower slopes, standing firmly, but with branch and bark seared off by the fierce alpine blast. Lower down, the vaUey begins to show pleasant signs of human life ; the women are simply, well, and tastefully dressed, and occasionally display features not un- worthy of the best days of their race. Really well-built and clean-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London : J. Murray
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