. The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. . ollin the road, advanced toward the shrine in the samemanner. The effect of these little processions, and thebeautiful blending of prayers, was singularly touching. Einsiedeln, unlike Loretto, has never been much fre-quented by the great. Italy has attractions in thesematters, which Switzerland can scarcely hope to rival;but, at the present day, Einsiedeln has, probably, morevotaries than Loretto; though they are poorer
. The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. . ollin the road, advanced toward the shrine in the samemanner. The effect of these little processions, and thebeautiful blending of prayers, was singularly touching. Einsiedeln, unlike Loretto, has never been much fre-quented by the great. Italy has attractions in thesematters, which Switzerland can scarcely hope to rival;but, at the present day, Einsiedeln has, probably, morevotaries than Loretto; though they are poorer persons. Pilgrims were arriving throughout the day, in partiesvarying from a-dozen to a-hundred. Their approach wasalways announced by the untiring repetitions of the prayers,which, in the distance, especially when male and femalevoices alternated, was poetical and plaintive. Most of thepilgrims were Germans. A large portion were from theBlack Forest, though there were also a good many Alsa-cians, and a few Italians, in the different groups. Thus pilgrimage is now, as it was more than a thou-sand years ago, one of the great features of travel in theregions of the We proceed now to point attention to some of theother principal roads over the Alps. The Romans, who, before the reign of AugustusCaesar, were but little acquainted with the Alps, or withany part of the region which these mountains enclose,reckoned, in the time of the republic, four principal roads 216 ALPINE ROADS. or passes. The moderns, as was mentioned, take noticeof at least twelve roads, pursued between the Gulf ofGenoa upon the west, and the head of the Adriatic uponthe east. Of the roads of Mount Simplon, and the GreatSaint-Bernard, we have afforded some description; and,to complete the list of twelve, there should be added,those of the Little Saint-Bernard, Mount Saint-Gothard,the Grimsel and Gries, the Bernardin and Spliigen,Mount Brenner, Mount Stelvio, Mount Cenis, MountGenevre, the Col-de-Tende and
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