Charles Eliot, landscape architect, a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good (1902)
offalls coming from great heights. BeyondBodio, the valley, which hitherto had someflat land in it, contracted; and soon the trainpassed a bridge over the river, then suddenlyjumped back again, and plunged straightinto the mountain side, to come out againat a point downstream from the point… … CROSSING THE ALPS 117 f .ET. 26] the mountain sides ; and here also were the first signs of Swissbuilders work. After more slow climbing, there appearedbelow Faido a hillside of pastures dottedwith dark brown log- barns, — altogetherSwiss. Superb waterfalls were in sight.The railway plunged into a…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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