En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries and over nineteen great passes of Europe (1908) (14582986128)

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Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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d intheir midst. Brescia the Valiant we passed through with-out halting, its streets crowded with soldiers, itsvery breath breathing militarism, showing how thisstrongly fortified vassal of Venice has never for-gotten the part she played in history, or her brilliantdefence and terrible fate of 1849. Still beneath thespurs of the Alps the road reaches Bergamo. Thereare two towns of Bergamo, the new and the old. Inthe new we stayed at a quiet little Albergo,thoroughly Italian, where the standard food ismacaroni, a most tasty and delightful dish to ourunaccustomed palates. La Citta Alta, the oldtown, set upon a hill, is worthy of a visit, con-taining several jewels of art. We walked backto the hotel by the old ramparts overlooking theplains of Lombardy. From Bergamo we travelled to Lecco, and untilComo were on familiar ground. A glimpse of thelake at Como and we turned south making straightfor Milan over exceedingly bad roads. The peopleworking in the fields on either side of the road176
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IIMi.M ().\ !■; (;i.n;;(()lS MoNlMKNT T<» ANoTIII; A FLYING GLIMPSE OF ITALY appeared to be knee-deep in the ground, and when■we halted to replace a burst tyre, we had thepleasure of a closer inspection. As we were fittinga new cover many gathered round us, and a motleygroup they were. Their legs, bare to the knee,were covered with a shiny deposit of mud. Bothmen and women worked on an even scale thatwould have satisfied the most rabid suffragist.From what I could gather from them, thewhole ground is flooded some two feet deepand allowed to drain; in six weeks or so acrop of maize or corn springs up, is cut, collected,and the ground sown afresh and reflooded. Asmany as eight to ten fresh crops are grown eachyear. Naturally the roads are sodden, also theyare deep in ruts made by the narrow wheels of thehuge carts that continuously crawl over them.The busy traffic of Milan was more than welcomeafter the uninteresting waste, and doubly so forits exquisite cathedral and other choi