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Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the canton Ticino (1913)

Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902, Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander), 1866-1919 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 64

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P^J2l1L^±. TENGIA, NO. 1 croak of a raven, or the booming of the great guns inthat battle which is being fought out between man andnature on the Biaschina and the Monte Piottino. It isalways a pleasure to me to feel that I have known the Calonico 57 Val Leventina intimately before the great change… … sant noise as though of cannonading with which we^ere so familiar. From nowhere was it more strikingthan from Calonico, the Monte Piottino having nosooner become silent than the Biaschina would open 58 Alps and Sanctuaries fire, and sometimes both would be firing at once.Posterity may care to know…

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