Peaks, Passes and Glaciers: A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club (1859)
Ball, John (Ed.) · Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts (London) · leaf 168
cHap. V.] ARPITETTA ALP, 147 could not expect a regular inn, even of the poorest kind, any- where in the valley ; but we understood from Taugwald that in the village of Ayer we might find a chalet sometimes devoted to the accommodation of a stray cattle-dealer. … It was almost the only day I can remember on the mountains, when not the smallest cloud or mist had marred the deep blue sky from sunrise till evening, but the valley is so completely shut in by lofty eminences, that darkness came upon us very soon after sunset, about which time we arrived at the…
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