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Excerpt from Picturesque Tour From Geneva to Milan, by Way of the Simplon: Illustrated With Thirty Six Coloured Views of the Most Striking Scenes and of the Principal Works Belonging to the New Road Constructed Over That Mountain The chain of the 'high Alps, composed of inaccessible snow capped peaks or cleft by deep ravines, cannot be passed but in a small number of places. The Simplon, situated nearly at the eastern extremity of the Valais, is one of the least ele rated of those passes which communicate between France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.