The Alps, Switzerland, and the North of Italy With Numerous Engravings (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Alps, Switzerland, and the North of Italy: With Numerous Engravings Another Alpine phenomenon may now be noticed; for, sometimes, loud crashes, like thunder-claps, and like them, too, followed by prolonged rolling, interrupt the reverie in which the mind of the traveller is naturally engaged, awakening, where the cause is unknown, a feeling of terror; and showing, when aware of it, how enormous are the masses of ice whose fall produces so tremendous a crash. Avalanches are, indeed, among the most extraordinary and terrible of natural phenomena. They occur where valleys lie embosomed in high mountains covered 'with snow, but as the declivities of the Alps are very steep, they are there proportionately frequent, and vary alike in their causes and results with different seasons. 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.