Identifier: picturesintyrol00tuck (find matches)
Title: Pictures in Tyrol and elsewhere
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: (Tuckett, Elizabeth) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ry to each fresh glissade. At last, fairlyexhausted, E. took refuge with Mrs. C, who had campedout on a damp piece of grass, a wholesome dread of wetfeet having made all our descriptions of delight fall heed-lessly on her ears. For a few minutes longer D. and C.ran races against each other, a sudden unlucky turn of thefoot bringing up now one, $ow the other, as a very badsecond, in a snow-drift, while the winner was often pre-cipitated most ingloriously into the cold soft mass at thebottom of the slope. The hours had passed so pleasantly that we hardlyrealised how rapidly the shadows were lengthening, tillthe Bergwagen were announced to be ready, and it wastime to turn our face homewards. Contented and weary,we were glad to find ourselves once more rattling downthe road, and we reached our old quarters as a goldenglow passing over the tops of the fir-trees, and shiningthrough the tufts and branches of the great Arolla pines,left the earth in a cold, frosty twilight, settled down for a
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SKETCHES FROM PONTRESINA. 143 moment like a veil of light over the higher mountains,and then faded slowly into the pale clear greenness of theevening sky. * * * * * * * We spent more than ten days at Pontresina, the plea-santest possible headquarters for mountaineers or forladies. The valley is at an elevation of nearly six thou-sand feet, and the air is deliciously fresh and bracing,even in July; and early as we were there, with sunshineand fine weather, the cold was very bearable and wonder-fully invigorating. The history of each day would fill along paper, and cannot be given here. A morning on theMorteratsch glacier was among our pleasantest expedi-tions ; the ice was in good order, comfortably crumbly onthe surface, and affording us plenty of foothold. Youmay walk for miles over this great sea of dirty ice, whichis anything but beautiful, as there are none of the aiguilleswhich make the great charm of the Oberland glaciers, andvery little colour. Here and there in a deep crevasse

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