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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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e wind. Othermovement there is none. Asort of dread seizes on us aswe advance into this wilder-ness, and see how all lifedisappears, how the rockspress closer, and feel a twi-light chill around us. Nowonder that the legend tellsus the bridge which crossesyon dizzy chasm was thework of the Fiend. Theroad turns a sharp rockyangle; the thundering voiceof falling waters sounds inour ears as though it cried Halt! And in the nextinstant we stand before theDevils Bridge. This is the culminatingpoint of the famous road.Not absolutely the highestas regards the level abovethe sea, but the highest inrespect of mans skill anddaring. It is truly a won-derful work ; especially whenone considers that a pathhas been carried over thisabyss for centuries back. Thespot is striking and remark-able in the highest degree.The Reuss has absolutelyforced its way through massesof granite. The narrownessof the channel increases theraging fury of the waters,the steep ascent of the St.tradition runs that when the
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Till! DEVILS BRIDGE. and this channel appears merely likeGothard. Who could dare to bridgeinhabitants of the Ursener Thai were asking themselves and each other this important a deepit over ? slit inThe ACROSS^HE ST. GOTHARD. n question, the Devil appeared to then? and promised to build their bridge, on conditionthat the soul of the first living being who crossed it, should be devoted to him. Thecunning men of the Ursener Thai accepted the condition : but no sooner was thebridge completed than they sent a dog across it, and the animal was instantly torn topieces. So enraged was his sable Majesty at being thus cheated, that he seized vastblocks of granite from the mountain with the intention of hurling them down anddestroying his own work. But even here, the Urseners were too many for him. Justas he was in the act to throw they shouted a hearty God bless you ! in his face, and theFiend let the stones fall aimless from his hand. One of them, called to this day theTeufels-stein (Devils st

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