. Identifier: journaloftourma00tobi Title: Journal of a tour made in the years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst accompanying the late Sir Humphry Davy Year: 1832 (1830s) Authors: Tobin, J. J Subjects: Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829 Publisher: London, W. S. Orr View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: rallel to each then went over a steep mountain, and droveon for about t
. Identifier: journaloftourma00tobi Title: Journal of a tour made in the years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst accompanying the late Sir Humphry Davy Year: 1832 (1830s) Authors: Tobin, J. J Subjects: Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829 Publisher: London, W. S. Orr View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: rallel to each then went over a steep mountain, and droveon for about two hours in a valley, on the sides ofwhich the trees and rocks were so picturesquelyblended, that it would be difficult to say whichof the two contributed most to the beauty of thelandscape. At the end of the road, on drivingdown a hill, the lake of Veldes opened upon lake is on a much smaller scale, and totallydifferent from the Traun-See, and to many wouldperhaps appear more beautiful. At the bottomof the hill, near the lake, lies the village ofVeldes, with its church steeple and a few ofthe houses peeping out from between the trees ;above the church an enormous lofty rock risesperpendicularly out of the waters of the lake,bearing on its top an old imperial castle, towhich on the land side a pathway is seen wind-ing up through the wood. In the centre of thelake is a small island, completely covered withtrees of the most brilliant green, in the midst ofwhich and high above them is seen the steeple Text Appearing After Image: GG [3 FEISTRITZ. 65 of a church, with the roofs of a few length of this lake is between three andfour miles, but its breadth is considerably less;the nearer shores are formed by noble mountainscovered with fields, meadows, and fine beechwoods, behind which to the right appear thesnowy peaks of the Wochain Alps. Drivingthrough the village and around the lake, weentered into the beautiful valley of the Wochain-Save, a small but beautifull
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