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Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nes, black gulfs, and yawning cavesWhose windings gave ten thousand various tonguesTo the loud stream. The road passes under an avalanche gallery andwinds itself in short zig-zags, ever climbing amidstscattered rocks till on rounding a mass of stone, itenters the gorge spanned by The Devils Bridge. A more wild and savage scene it is difficult toimagine. The gorge is narrow ; the rocks rise upsheer to a great height—on one side the Reussleaps over a precipice in one foam-enshrouded mass,falling into an abyss a hundred feet beneath thebridge, which it envelops with its spray, carriedfar out from the stream by furious gusts of windwhich come howling down the ravine. A doleful place : hemmed in with earthen precipices. The scene is awful enough in broad daylight, butilluminated by the uncertain light of dawn wasweird in the extreme. Terrible as the scene is, more terrible still are thesights that it has looked upon. How the Imperial-ists being forced to retreat before the French, made32
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THE GREAT ST. GOTHARD their last stand upon the bridge, the charge of theFrench, the fierce struggle on the bridge over theboiling waters ; and then the total collapse of thewhole structure, and the warriors, friend and foealike, hurled into eternity. How, unable to stem therush of the charging host behind them, the Frenchgrenadiers left upon the edge were hurled to jointheir comrades below, whilst the remainder wereexposed to a deadly fire from the Austrians. How,at enormous cost, the Imperialists repaired thebridge only to be defeated by Judin after hissuperhuman march across the Furka against almostoverwhelming odds. How, for a month they heldthe Pass till they themselves were forced to retreatbefore Suwarrof, are facts in history. But one cannever hope to realise the true significance of thewords, till one has gazed upon the Devils chasm andheard the thunder of the stream from which thecries of the lost souls seem to rise strangled in thehowling of the wind. The wind was shrieking

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