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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Courmayeur ? La Salle ? Accommodation at the Hotel a la Rose ? Aosta ?Val d'Aosta ? Chatillon ? Val Tour- nanche. August 18th.?We found our accommodation here far superior to what we had expected. Many Piemontese during the season visit the baths and mineral springs of Courmayeur. A good table d'h6te is served at the Angela; and the sublime scenery of the neighbourhood (easily accessible in short excursions) renders a brief visit to Courmayeur, in the month of August, a source of great pleasure. My recollection of the magnificent view of the glacier of the Brenva, from the forest of St. Nicolas, induced me to return to it to-day to make a drawing of the scene. Whilst I was engaged, the silence of these solitudes was very impressive: it was broken only at long intervals by the distant thunder of the avalanches falling from the glacier, whose sharp, bright, and enormous masses, seen across the valley, bade defiance to conjecture upon its distance; it was four or five times as far off as it appeared to be; and the immense moraine, which took the course of thevalley when it left that of the glacier on the mountain, extended more than a league towards Courmayeur. The soil which lay on its sides nourished the roots of enormous pines, and concealed the ice upon which it rested. Few inhabited situations are so sublime as Courmayeur. Mont Blanc, and the vast peaks which rise on its Piemontese side, are, in appearance, so immediately above the town, that from the street they excite an appalling impression by their height and proximity; all the surrounding objects are so enormous, that those by which we usually estimate magnitude dwindle into utter insignificance. We left Courmayeur about three o'clock, to descend the valley of Aosta; our route lay on the left bank ...
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