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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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d here dis-appearing into the pines. From where we stood, only a portion of the Ebenand Madatsch glaciers is visible, but from a smallhouse some three hundred feet above, a magnificentview of them is obtained. We climbed to thisspot, Dreisprachenspitze, where three languages(Italian, German and Romanish) meet and clashtogether. The scenery from this point is inconceivablygrand, and for a time made us forget the road.Before us lay Austria: the entire range of theOrtler-Spitz rising majestically from the depths ofa deep ravine forms a fitting portal to beautifulTirol. Behind us the Engadine, a mirage of tower-ing peaks, range after range, far away into thedistance; and between these two enchanting landslay Italy still slumbering in the warm sunshine. Looking once more at the road we saw that itwas covered with little dark specks : through ourglasses they resolved themselves into coaches andcarriages crawling upwards like black spiders. Wesat upon the rocks and watched them. It was two68
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THE HIGHEST PASS IN EUROPE hours before the foremost speck reached thesummit. The little plateau soon presented a scene of busylife : every form of Alpine coach collected, somefrom Italy, some from Austria. Two-horsed landauswith luggage boxes behind appeared to be thefavourite, while here and there heavy five-horsedcoaches and diligences rested after their wearyclimb. The luggage boxes on the backs of thecarriages are selected by hotel porters as adver-tising placards and become a moving picturegallery, covered as they soon are by brightly-coloured labels. At one place at which we stayed,Dennis discovered an enterprising concierge stick-ing a brightly painted label on to Mercedes bonnet.It stuck like seccotine and remained there forseveral days, till finally it succumbed under avigorous attack of the hose. To return to the- summit. Tourists, with theirinseparable Baedekers, flocked from one vantagepoint to another, admiring the view, marvelling atthe road and generally enjoying thems

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