. En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe . raised to the memory ofJosef Pichler, who, in 1804, was the first humanbeing to stand upon the summit of the this spot the view is truly great glaciers, springing from a single source,are separated one from the other by immensemasses of rock, in themselves mountains ; to theleft the Ortler rises out of a bed of crystal; amidstthe pines, lost to sight, stands the chapel of the Three Holy Springs, and out of the depths of thevalley, at our feet, comes the incess
. En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe . raised to the memory ofJosef Pichler, who, in 1804, was the first humanbeing to stand upon the summit of the this spot the view is truly great glaciers, springing from a single source,are separated one from the other by immensemasses of rock, in themselves mountains ; to theleft the Ortler rises out of a bed of crystal; amidstthe pines, lost to sight, stands the chapel of the Three Holy Springs, and out of the depths of thevalley, at our feet, comes the incessant roar of adozen rushing torrents. Trafoi, down to which theroad winds, lies far beneath the glaciers up to whichit gazes. We stayed here for a few days. Verydifferent was the hotel from the one we had quitted,and the calls of civilisation galled us strangely afterthe free life we had been leading in that sweet littlehouse so close to the silent snows. As we were still 5000 feet above the sea level,another long descent awaited us. Plunging into adeep and narrow valley, the road is carried from a76.
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