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Updated: June 14, 2025
After leaving Breglio we ascended the course of this river till it narrowed into a defile between two rocks; on entering which the town of Saorgio appears, after a mile or two, piled on the top and shelving side of the precipice to the right in a singular manner.
"I have sacrificed my residence in my country and my property to the republic; I have lost all for her. "By serving my country with some distinction at Toulon and in the Italian army, I have had my share in the laurels which that army has won at Saorgio, Queille, and Tanaro.
Thus Fort Mirabocco, on the pass of the Cross, fell into the hands of General Dumas, who then conquered the intrenched Mount Cenis; thus the pass of Tenda, with the fortress Saorgio, was captured by the French; and there, in the general depot of the Piedmontese army, they found sixty cannon and war materials of all kinds.
A traveller desirous of making a sketch of what is an unique thing in its way, would do well to get three hours start of his carriage from Breglio, and scramble among the heights to the right of the river, for a point which gives a more accurate idea of Saorgio than we could obtain from the valley.
The pass is not on a larger scale than the Val d'Ollioules, as far as Saorgio; but after leaving the latter village, the rocks rise to a much greater height, and assume a more savage character.
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