There Is Scarcely Ever Any Detention On This Road From
The Fall Of Snow, As There Are A Considerable Number Of Persons Employed To
Deblay It As Soon As It Falls; But Here, As Well As On The Simplon, There
Are Maisons De Refuge At A Short Distance From Each Other.
We stopped for
two hours at the inn at Mont-Cenis, which is about one hundred yards from
the Hospice.
It was a remarkable fine day, and I enjoyed my walk very
much. The mountain air was keen and bracing and particularly delightful
after being shut up for some many days in the close valley. We had some
excellent trout for dinner. At Mont-Cenis, near the Hospice, is a large
lake which is frozen during eight months of the year. Here reigns eternal
winter and the mountains are covered with snows that never melt. From
Mont-Cenis to Suza the descent is very grand and striking, and the scenery
resembles that of the Simplon; there are more obstacles of nature than on
the former part of the road, and here ravines are connected by the means of
bridges, and there are subterraneous galleries to pass thro. Several
chutes d'eau are here observable; one of them I cannot avoid mentioning,
as being very magnificent. It is formed by the Cenischia[74] which divides
Savoy from Piedmont and runs into the Dora at Suza. We were highly
gratified at the sight of the sublime scenery on all sides, and at the
magnificent chaussee, and we all (I mean the passengers in the two
coaches and myself) did hommage to the mighty genius who conceived and
caused to be executed such a stupendous work.
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