Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...the moraine of the glacier de Miage (c), perhaps the most extraordinary in the whole Alps. Beyond this glacier the valley widens, and becomes more romantic and less savage. Trees appear on both sides, especially on the right, where the forest is very fine, and clothes all the northern slope of a remarkable hill, with a conical summit called the Mont Chetif, or Pain de Sucre, which is composed of granite, although separated from the great chain S SS? COURMAYEUR. COUMTMATMnR by secondary rocks. The paths through these woods are truly beautiful That leading to Courmayeur, after attaining some height above the torrent, proceeds nearly on a level, until, emerging from the trees, we come into full view of the majestic Glacier de la Brenva, which, formed in a hollow to the east of Mont Blanc, pours its mass into the valley, which it has, in a good measure, filled up with its moraine, forming a kind of bridge, which it has pushed before it, and on which it bestrides obliquely the Allee Blanche, abutting against its opposite side, at the foot of the Mont Chetif. "A chapel, dedicated to Notre Dame de la Guerison, stands on the right-hand side of the way, exactly opposite to the ice; and another steep descent conducts us again to the hank of the river, which here turns abruptly, after its confluence with the stream of the Val Ferret, into a ravine, cutting the range of the Pain de Sucre. The united streams are passed by a wooden bridge at the Baths of la Saxe, and twenty minutes more brings the traveller to the beautifully situated village of JJL COURMAYEUR (4211 feet above the sea level), the highest considerable village in the great valley of Aosta. It is frequented by the Piedmontese in considerable numbers every summer, both on account..."