Identifier: enroutedescripti00trev (find matches)
Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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IROL There never was a jollier or livelier little place thanthat tiny hotel at Franzenshohe; every coach anddiligence had perforce to halt before its doors and beexamined by the one official comprising the douane^a host in himself. The musical tinkle of the cow-bells showed that we had descended at least farenough to reach vegetation, though still high abovethe nearest fir. As the whole of the road to thesummit is visible from Franzenshohe, we couldwatch the stream of conveyances climbing anddescending the long series of knots. Close by aglacier, broken into a thousand crevices, pouredover the mountain side like a gigantic wave spark-ling in the sunshine with all the radiance of acascade of gems. Amidst these scenes never a moment was dull orwasted. Some days we would make excursions overthe glaciers or wander upon the mountain sides,though more often it seemed all sufficient to sitlazily at the sheltered door and watch the busy lifeof the diligences, while drinking in the exquisite74
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