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Bernard and mount Rosa ; the last nearly approacliing mount Blanc in height, being upwards of 15, 000 feet above the sea. Ihe inhabitants of tliis dutchy are disfigured by monstrous wens, and seldoni stir out of their vallies. The river Dor'ia Baltea descends from St. Bernard, and runs S. S. Ei through the middle of the valley to the Po. Aosta^ Augusta Pretoria, is a small town and bishop's see, containing a cathedral, . 4 churches, and 4 convents, pleasantly situate on the Doria Baltea, at the... foot of the Alps, in a bottom where several fruitful vallies terminate, about 35 miles northward of Turin. Its environs are agreeable ; but the prospect on either hand is confined by mountains. Here are some Roman antiquir ties, viz. A triumphal arch, an amphitheatre, &c. Ferrez, Vitricium, a market town with a castle, 12 miles S. E. Of Aosta. Banio, a mean place, with a fort on a rock which defends a narrow entrance into a valley. Cormagg'iore, a market town of 288 houses, noted for its mine- ral spring, situate in a pleasant valley abounding in grain and fruit.
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