Letters Of A Traveller, By William Cullen Bryant















































































































 -  It had a considerable
extent of battlemented wall in perfect preservation, and both that and its
circular tower were so - Page 39
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It Had A Considerable Extent Of Battlemented Wall In Perfect Preservation, And Both That And Its Circular Tower Were So Luxuriantly Loaded With Ivy That They Seemed Almost To Have Been Cut Out Of The Living Verdure.

As we proceeded we became aware how worthy this region was to be the birthplace of a poet.

A rapid stream, a branch of the Piave, tinged of a light and somewhat turbid blue by the soil of the mountains, came tumbling and roaring down the narrow valley; perpendicular precipices rose on each side; and beyond, the gigantic brotherhood of the Alps, in two long files of steep pointed summits, divided by deep ravines, stretched away in the sunshine to the northeast. In the face of one the precipices by the way-side, a marble slab is fixed, informing the traveller that the road was opened by the late Emperor of Germany in the year 1830. We followed this romantic valley for a considerable distance, passing several little blue lakes lying in their granite basins, one of which is called the _Lago morto_ or Dead Lake, from having no outlet for its waters. At length we began to ascend, by a winding road, the steep sides of the Alps - the prospect enlarging as we went, the mountain summits rising to sight around us, one behind another, some of them white with snow, over which the wind blew with a wintery keenness - deep valleys opening below us, and gulfs yawning between rocks over which old bridges were thrown - and solemn fir forests clothing the broad declivities.

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