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 81
MAIN DOORWAY,S. NICOLAO 74 Alps and Sanctuaries suffuse a whole interior as it does on a fine summers dayat Giornico. I do not remember to have seen this effect,in England. Looking up again against the mountain through theiopen door of the church when the sun was in a certainposition, I could see… … INPERIOR OF OLD CHURCH, GIORNICO throughout the air. No one could have suspected itsexistence, till the suns rays fell on the wings of thesesmall creatures at a proper angle ; on this they becamerevealed against the darkness of the mountain behindthem. The swallows that were flying among themcannot…
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