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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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ge goes undera wooden and glass shelter, in which the engine-room is placed. The guard, pointing to a doorway,informed us that we must go outside if we wishedto see the falls ; we went outside, and he closed thedoor carefully behind us. Scarcely had we crossedthe threshold than we were met by a blindingshower of spray, and in a few seconds completelydi^enched. As we gasped for breath we gazed upon the falls—a magnificent sight, but probably better appre-ciated from the interior of a diving-suit. A rushing,roaring torrent seemed to come pouring in greatvolume almost perpendicularly above our heads;striking a ledge of rock parallel to where we stoodit shot out in one superb arch of solid water,falling with the noise of continuous thunder into achasm, whose depths were hidden by impenetrabledarkness. We cant get any wetter. Lets follow thatpath and see where it goes, Ken spluttered, andwe made a simultaneous rush up the slippery foot-way ; after climbing some distance we reached a24 ^^
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Oh O o w A DASH FOR THE ALPS height above the spray. Luckily the sun wasshining brightly, and as we gazed at one anotherwe could hardly help laughing at our astonishingsurprise. Alas ! for our summer attire, our panamasand sunshades—they were sodden till they couldhold no more. ContinuiDg the climb we finallyreached the summit; here the path leads to a stonestand, directly above the great fall. Retracing oursteps we rushed as quickly as possible through thespray and regained the shelter of the engine-house,only to find that we must wait half an hour for thenext train. Dinner was served as we four sodden mortalstrooped into the hotel, and it was not until we hadhad a bath and complete change into dry thingsthat we were fit to sit down with respectablepeople. Why the hotel porter, who so eagerly relieved usof our coats, refrained from warning us, I neverknew ; or why the ofiicials of the fall do not hire outmackintoshes, like those of the Pthine fall at Miil-hausen, I could never asce

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