. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . minutes upon ascaffolding, and being awakened by a sudden noise,he started up, lost his balance, and fell over on tothe pavement below. He died a few days later, onthe 17th of October, either 1787 or 1778, I cannotdetermine which, through a misprint in Muratorisaccount. The work was now virtually finished, and thebuildings were much as they are seen now, exceptthat a third storey was added to the hospice about theyear 1840. It is in the hospice that the apartmentsare in which visitors are lodged. I was shown allover them, and
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . minutes upon ascaffolding, and being awakened by a sudden noise,he started up, lost his balance, and fell over on tothe pavement below. He died a few days later, onthe 17th of October, either 1787 or 1778, I cannotdetermine which, through a misprint in Muratorisaccount. The work was now virtually finished, and thebuildings were much as they are seen now, exceptthat a third storey was added to the hospice about theyear 1840. It is in the hospice that the apartmentsare in which visitors are lodged. I was shown allover them, and found them not only comfortable butluxurious—decidedly more so than those of Oropa ;there was the same cleanliness everywhere which Ihad noticed in the restaurant. As one stands atthe windows or on the balconies and looks down on GRAGLIA. 253 to the tops of the chestnuts, and over these to theplains, one feels almost as if one could fly out ofthe window like a bird; for the slope of the hills is sorapid that one has a sense of being already suspendedin - •SV SANCTUARY OF GRAGLIA. I thought I observed a desire to attract Englishvisitors in the pictures which I saw in the there was A view of the black lead mine inCumberland, a coloured English print of the endof the last century or the beginning of this, after,I think, Loutherbourg, and in several rooms there 254 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. were English engravings after Martin. The Englishwill not, I think, regret if they yield to these attrac-tions. They will find the air cool, shady walks, goodfood, and reasonable prices. Their rooms will not becharged for, but they will do well to give the same asthey would have paid at a hotel. I saw in one roomone of those flippant, frivolous, Lorenzo de Medicimatchboxes on which there was a gaudily-colourednymph in high-heeled boots and tights, smoking acigarette. Feeling that I was in a sanctuary, I wasa little surprised that such a matchbox should havebeen tolerated.
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