. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . e taken for ten minutes orso beyond Tengia. Calonico Church shows well forsometime before it is actually reached. The pastureshere are very rich in flowers, the tiger lilies being moreabundant before the hay is mown, than perhaps evenat Fusio itself. The whole walk is lovely, and theGribbiasca waterfall, the most graceful in the ValLeventina, is just opposite. How often have I not sat about here in the shadesketching, and watched the blue upon the mountainswhich Titian watched from under the chestnuts ofCadore. No sound except
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . e taken for ten minutes orso beyond Tengia. Calonico Church shows well forsometime before it is actually reached. The pastureshere are very rich in flowers, the tiger lilies being moreabundant before the hay is mown, than perhaps evenat Fusio itself. The whole walk is lovely, and theGribbiasca waterfall, the most graceful in the ValLeventina, is just opposite. How often have I not sat about here in the shadesketching, and watched the blue upon the mountainswhich Titian watched from under the chestnuts ofCadore. No sound except the distant water, or thecroak of a raven, or the booming of the great guns inthat battle which is being fought out between man andnature on the Biaschina and the Monte Piottino. It isalways a pleasure to me to feel that I have known theVal Leventina intimately before the great change in it CALONICO. 5 which the railway will effect, and that I may hope tosee it*after the present turmoil is over. Our descend-ants a hundred years hence will not think of the inces-. TENGIA, NO. I. sant noise as though of cannonading with which wewere so familiar. From nowhere was it more strikingthan from Calonico, the Monte Piottino having no 52 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. sooner become silent than the Biaschina would openfire, and sometimes both would be firing at may care to know that another and lessagreeable feature of the present time was the quantityof stones that would come flying about in places whichone would have thought were out of range. All alongthe road, for example, between Giornico and Lavorgo,there was incessant blasting going on, and it was sur-prising to see the height to which stones were some-times carried. The dwellers in houses near the blast-ing would cover their roofs with boughs and leavesto soften the fall of the stones. A few people werehurt, but much less damage was done than might havebeen expected. I may mention for the benefit ofEnglish readers that the t
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