. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . edas with gold from the fire, and his back silver with themoonbeams; behind him were the pastures and thereflections in the lake and the mountains ; and thedistant cowbells were ringing. Then I wandered on till I came to the chapel ofS. Carlo; and in a few minutes found myself on theLago di Cadagna. Here I heard that there werepeople, and the people were not so much asleep asthe simple peasantry of these upland valleys are ex-pected to be by nine oclock in the evening. For nowwas the time when they had moved up from Ronco,Alta
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . edas with gold from the fire, and his back silver with themoonbeams; behind him were the pastures and thereflections in the lake and the mountains ; and thedistant cowbells were ringing. Then I wandered on till I came to the chapel ofS. Carlo; and in a few minutes found myself on theLago di Cadagna. Here I heard that there werepeople, and the people were not so much asleep asthe simple peasantry of these upland valleys are ex-pected to be by nine oclock in the evening. For nowwas the time when they had moved up from Ronco,Altanca, and other villages in some numbers to cut thehay, and were living for a fortnight or three weeks inthe chalets upon the Lago di Cadagna. As I havesaid, there is a chapel, but I doubt whether it is PI ORA. 8* attended during this season with the regularity withwhich the parish churches of Ronco, Altanca, &c, areattended during the rest of the year. The youngpeople, I am sure, like these annual visits to thehigh places, and will be hardly weaned from CHAPEL OF S. CARLO, PIORA. Happily the hay will be always there, and will haveto be cut by some one, and the old people will sendthe young ones. As I was thinking of these things, I found myselfgoing off into a doze, and thought the burnished 86 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. man from the furnace came up and sat beside me, andlaid his hand upon my shoulder. Then I saw thegreen slopes that rise all round the lake were muchhigher than I had thought ; they went up thousandsof feet, and there were pine forests upon them, whiletwo large glaciers came down in streams that ended ina precipice of ice, falling sheer into the lake. Theedges of the mountains against the sky were ruggedand full of clefts, through which I saw thick clouds ofdust being blown by the wind as though from theother side of the mountains. And as I looked, I saw that this was not dust, butpeople coming in crowds from the other side, but, sosmall as to be visible at fi
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