The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. (1839)
London : J.W. Parker · leaf 223
carryaway with them to the convent, they will lie down uponthe body, applying their warm bellies to the heart of thesufferer, and bark or howl for better assistance. At theconvent, in the mean time, in snow-storms, or in otherseasons of peculiar danger, a bell is kept continually ring-ing, for the… … Dog cf Saint-Bernard. Sometimes the monks of the convent, the servants,or the dogs, are themselves the victims, in their efforts tosave those in danger or affliction. On the 17th of De-cember, 1825, three servants of the convent, with threetravellers and two dogs, had descended to the vacheries,or…
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