Switzerland, its scenery, history, and literary associations . se of the promon-tory between the two arms of the lake, withits handsome villas and gardens and hotelsin the midst of a landscap>e which unitesalmost every element of natural beauty, loftymountains, clear, blue waters of the lake,trees and flowers, and grass, and over all thesoft and tender blue of an Italian sky. But again we must hurry on, this timeback towards Switzerland by another route;from Como by rail to Laveno on Lake Mag-giore, then by steamer to Stresa and then byrailroad to Domodossola and the Simplon. Among the grea
Switzerland, its scenery, history, and literary associations . se of the promon-tory between the two arms of the lake, withits handsome villas and gardens and hotelsin the midst of a landscap>e which unitesalmost every element of natural beauty, loftymountains, clear, blue waters of the lake,trees and flowers, and grass, and over all thesoft and tender blue of an Italian sky. But again we must hurry on, this timeback towards Switzerland by another route;from Como by rail to Laveno on Lake Mag-giore, then by steamer to Stresa and then byrailroad to Domodossola and the Simplon. Among the great historic passes of theAlps, none in recent years has become so well-known as the Simplon. The name is firstmentioned in \i35, and is applied to theHospice on the pass (659i feet). This hospicewhich belonged to the Knights IIosf)itaIlersof St. John of Jerusalem, gradually disap-pears from sight in the fifteenth century andwas finally .sold in 1655 to the Stockalperfamily of Brigue, which entertained fame of the Simplon. however, dates from17G. MOUNTAIN PASSES, RAILROADS, TUNNELS the time when Napoleon saw its strategicalimportance, and caused the present carriageroad to be built over it in 1801-05, and builta set of barracks on the summit which formsthe present new hospice. It is interesting to read the impressionsmade on distinguished men by the SimplonPass, before and after the building of the newroad. Thus Wordsworth speaks of thisgloomy pass, of The immeasurable heightOf woods decaying, never to be stationary blast of in the narrow rent, at every thwarting winds, bewildered and torrents shooting from the clcjir blue rocks that muttered close upon our unfettered clouds and region of the and peace, the darkness and the light,—Were all the workings of one mind, the featuresOf the same face, blossom upon one of the Great Apocalypse,The tyjjes and symbols of Eterni
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