An insurmountable enormous bound;—
That vale was so sequester'd and secluded,
All search for ages past it had eluded.
Hookham Frere.
VAL MAGGIA—BIGNASCO—VAL LAVIZZARA—THE BASODINE—VAL BAVONA—PIZ CAMPO TENCCA—VAL DI PRATO.
The typical Alpine Clubman has been somewhere described by Mr. Anthony Trollope as cherishing in his bosom, through the ten months of each year in which the business of life debars him from his favourite pursuit, an ever-gnawing desire for the beloved mountains.
For myself, whenever, as I often do, I vent
—— an inward groan
To sit upon an Alp as on a throne