 | John Purdy - 1838 - 420 pàgines
...wonderfully sublime as this place. It is a huge valley, or rather crater, of immense depth, inclosed on all sides by a range of magnificent mountain precipices, the sides and summit of which are broken into every variety of buttress or pinnacle, — now black, and craggy, and beetling, — at other parts... | |
 | John Purdy - 1845 - 562 pàgines
...Switserland said, that in the Alpine country he had never seen anything so wonderfully sublime as this place. It is a huge valley, or rather crater, of immense...precipices, the sides and summit of which are broken into every variety of buttress or pinnacle, — now black, and craggy, and beetling, — at other parts... | |
 | John Purdy - 1853 - 614 pàgines
...Switzerland sakl, that in the Alpine country he had never seen anything so wonderfully sublime as this place. It is a huge valley, or rather crater, of immense depth, enclosed" on all sides by a range of magniGceut mountain precipices, the sides and summit of which are broken into every variety of buttress... | |
 | 1854 - 644 pàgines
...natural scenery it is well worth the trouble of a visit. It is an immense valley, of almost fathomless depth, enclosed on all sides by a range of magnificent mountain precipices 1000 feet high, the sides of which are perpendicular and broken into every variety of buttress or pinnacle.... | |
 | 1872 - 254 pàgines
...natural scenery it is well worth the trouble of a visit. It is an immense valley of almost fathomless depth, enclosed on all sides by a range of magnificent mountain precipices 1,000 feet high. Round a part of these cliffs is a narrow road cut out of the rock, leading to the... | |
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Switserland said, that in the Alpine country he had never seen anything so wonderfully sublime as this place. It is a huge valley, or rather crater, of immense depth, enclosed on all sides by a range of magnificent mountain precipices, the sides and summit... 