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We had thought the Swiss Chalets unapproachable as climbers, but
here are successful competitors. Away up the mountain
side thousands of feet upon the face of the rocks almost perpen-
dicular we see white houses upon a ledges barely wide enough
for the foundations, apparently inaccessible oftentimes too
steep for vegatation [sic] At their giddy highth much resembling the
size of a pin head on a barn door.
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The Grape vines instead of clinging to a short pole kept
low as in the north are here all upon trellis’s and arbors.
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Many of the road side fences are of thin flag stones set up
end ways three feet high-
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Many of the telegraph poles are of granite, a single column
about 12 inches square by 18 ft high, capped with an
iron harp shaped arch projecting a couple of feet above to
receive the wires-
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At 12 1/2 oclock we reach the beautiful little lake of
Margozza and around it to the left The Guide Books
make no mention of it but it is a beautiful sheet of water, almost
two miles long the high, steep, mountain range on either side running
their verdant slopes directly into the deep blue waters of the quiet lake
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A mile farther we reach Feriola on the short west arm of
Laggo Maggiore, called the Bay of Baveno, thence around the
left bank ^the road^ close by the water, but built up eight or ten feet
with a hansome wall of masonry crooking in and out with the curves
of the shore at our left charming villas amid luxurient foliage
upon the sloping side of the mountain which leaves scarcely any valley
between its base and the water Roses and oleanders Fig
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