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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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the waters edge is fullof novelty, first by zigzags, and then as the roadreaches a place where the mountain towers some700 feet sheer out of the lake, it is cut, in one longsloping line, deep out of the solid rock : frequentlyjutting far out over the water till a stone rolled overits edge will, after a few moments, drop with asplash into the lake. Sweeping round sharp cornersof rock, passing through several tunnels now andthen, as it were, hanging between heaven andearth, we came in sight of Kiva, dozing in therosy sunset beneath the ruins of the castle ofthe Scaligers upon the side of the precipitousRocchetta. Continuing the descent, the road ever cut in therocks, we reached the waters edge and passedthrough the old town with its quaint harbour andbusy square. That end of Garda which lies within the bordersof Austria is undoubtedly the cream of the wholelake. There the grandeur of the Alps is brought tomingle dreamily with the softer beauties of Italy.86 ^•iT;_ >S^£,.C-^;^:^.y^
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BEAUTIFUL TIROL At this end of the lake fair Riva enjoys a favouredexistence. Gazing over the still waters towards thesouth she yet clings to the north. In her busymarket you can buy fruit, almost tropical in thestate of perfection to which it has grown : eachmorning the sun shines down upon the town ; atmid-day, when its heat threatens to become unbear-able, there springs up a cool fresh breeze, blowingfrom off the blue expanse, and lasting till theKocchetta throws its deep shadow over the town.The hotel, standing in its palm-studded grounds,juts far out into the lake and is an ideal spot inwhich to rest; bathing in the morning, when thelake lies like a mirror, and in the afternoon skimmingover its ruffled surface in a lug-sailed boat admirablysuited to the strong, refreshing breeze, faithful asthe sun himself In the silvery moonlight, whenthe lake again lay calm, we would row out upon itsstill surface, while from shore would come, floatingupon the night air, the voices of those who

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