Untrodden Peaks And Unfrequented Valleys: a Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites
Untrodden Peaks And Unfrequented Valleys: a Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites
Edwards Amelia Ann Blanford
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" But there, at all events, lie the piled rocks with their buried secrets, and often there is no outward difference to show w^hich fell within the memory of man, and which before the date of man's creation. The history of the lake of Alleghe has, however, been handed down with unusual accuracy. The date of the calamity, and the extent of the damage done, are registered in certain parish books and municipal records ; and these again are supplemented by deeds and papers preserved by private famil...ies in the villages round about. Most of these families, and among them the Pezz^s of Caprile, can tell of ancestors whose houses and lands were buried in the great fall of 1771. This was how it happened : — The Monte Pezza, of which I shall have more to say hereafter, lies to the West of the lake, being the largest of the four mountains already mentioned as surrounding the hollow in which Caprile is built. Northwards it breaks away in abrupt precipices, culminating in a fine rocky summit some 8,000 feet above the level of tlie sea ; Imt on 174 UNTRODDEN PEAKS ^ UNFREQUENTED VALLEYS, the side nearest the lake it slopes down in a succession of rich woods, pastures, and picturesque ravines.
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