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"Diligence, coupe, morning." "I want two seats in coupe. If I can't get them, two in banquette." "Yaas banquette, coupe, yaas, diligence." "Do you understand? Two seats, diligence, Simplon, morning. Will you get them?" "Oh, yaas! morning, diligence. Yaas, sirr." "Hang the fellow! Where is the office?"
Here also we slept; and the next day our voiturier, who had brought us from Lausanne, started with us up the Simplon Pass; helped on by two extra horses. "The beginning of the road was rather cheerful; having a good deal of green pasturage, and some mountain villages; but it soon becomes dreary and savage in aspect, and but for our bright sky and warm air, would have been truly dismal.
The Simplon road could be seen, dividing the valley like an arrow. I had gone on quite ahead of my company, and as my mule soberly paced downward in the almost perpendicular road, I seemed to be poised so high above the enchanting scene that I had somewhat the same sensation as if I were flying. I don't wonder that larks seem to get into such a rapture when they are high up in the air.
May our Divine Keeper, in his infinite mercy, grant us protection and safety, even in the hands of ungodly men! The journey to Ancona took them seventeen days; they crossed the Alps by the Simplon, and traversed Italy through Milan and Bologna. Martha Yeardley touches upon a few points of the journey in a letter to Elizabeth Dudley. Ancona, 11 mo. 4.
At the entrance of Savoy, that natural labyrinth of deep valleys, which descend like so many torrents from the Simplon, St.
Among them is the one celebrated by Wordsworth when it stood on the Simplon, and which Napoleon intended for the triumphal arch of Milan. Some noble-minded and generous Jew has bequeathed a large sum for the support of the church; and the King of Holland gave 50,000 francs for the same purpose truly a world's acknowledgment of St. Paul's large-hearted, self-sacrificing, and noble life.
The deposits of the torrent which has scooped out the Nantzen Thal, a couple of miles below Brieg in the Valais, have built up a semicircular hillock, which most travellers by the Simplon route pass over without even noticing it, though it is little inferior in dimensions to the great cones of dejection described by Blanqui.
My son, a slip of a person in knickerbockers, walked over the Simplon as though Alps were only made to be climbed by boys of eleven; and the Defile of Gondo, Domo d'Ossola, and beautiful Maggiore they were all new and heavenly to each member of the party.
They traveled together through Germany and into Switzerland, where for three or four weeks they trudged over passes and lounged upon blue lakes. At last they crossed the Simplon and made their way to Venice. Mr.
I suppose that is what the Government wishes to prevent." "And you're on the side of the Government," said the other, with a twinkle in her brown eyes. "Truly now you hated the whole idea of driving over the Simplon." Lady Cressage lifted her brows in whimsical assent as she nodded. "But do you like this Russian plan any better?" demanded Celia.
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