Identifier: enroutedescripti00trev (find matches)
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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ense spray being thrown into the airand lending a gorgeous splendour to the scene. Upthe face of this waterfall the road climbed in a waythat positively made the hair bristle on my head.Above us the road disappeared into the rock andwe could see it reappear higher still, turning uponcorners, built by prodigious labour, out from themountain, and continuing to rise by a series ofmarvellous contortions out of sight as it seemed,into the very heavens. I had thought that wewere hardened to all mountain climbs, but thatfalse notion was dispelled by the Spliigen. Theidea of a road climbing literally on its hands andknees up the face of a precipice that alone couldbe ascended by a party with ropes, was in itselfenough to astonish the most hardened, but the wayby which this was accomplished was positivelyterrifying. * The Stelvios a fool to this, gaspedKen, as we stuck on a turn and held there by ourbrakes. Out leapt Dennis and backwards andforwards between the rock and the frail wall we274 II
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A CHArTER OF ADVENTURES manoeuvred till at last we faced the ascending roadand leapt forward the short distance to the nextturn. In one of the circular tunnels, where therewas scarcely light enough to see, we came upon aflock of sheep and goats ; the noise (of the enginesounded like continuous thunder, terrifying theanimals and causing much trouble before they couldbe got past, their driver regarding us with super-stitious awe as though we were spirits from anotherworld, and Merc^d^s a fiery dragon from the netherregions. At the summit of the precipice and alsoof the waterfall, we reached the tiny hamlet ofPianazzo, but without stopping rushed up the steeproad before us which now clung to the face of asloping mountain similar to the Stelvio or Gotthard,and tame after what we had passed. Here againalmost the whole road passes through avalanchegalleries, and as we were now enveloped by the cloudsthe light was exceedingly bad. It was the mostsporting experience we ever enjoyed, for we kn

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