New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-02-02

imports. Soon this pink hue became a golden
yellow, which spread over the whole range, and
told that the sun had now completely risen.
AS the road ascends tmeets the deep and wide
valley OF the Ganther, and passes up one side OF
1t, TIL 1t reaches a point narrow enough to be
crossed by lofty bridge. There it turns back
and by several zg-zags reaches Z" house OF
refugee strong stone building erected in a
safe situation TO receive travellers caught in a
storm Soon after it enters the rock and traverses
It by a gallery" or tunnel, hundred feet long.
The forests on the side of the hill become con-
tlnually more and more scanty; the pine becomes
stunted and at last disappears, and the rocks are
almost bare of verdure. The most dangerous
part of the road is on approaching the summit,
for 1t is there that avalanches most fall and hur-
rlcanes rage, and SIX places of refuge have been
there provided within two miles. Glaciers hang
above the road and feed cascades, which are
trlnged and overhung with icices. The galleries
are here lngeniously made to serve as waste
welrs also, and you pass under archways over
which waterfalls pour, and over which the ava
lanches slide harmlessly in spring. The grandeur
and majesty of the surrounding scenery are en-
HANGED by the barrenness Of the frozen soil, and
Nature seems to have given up in despair any
efforts at production in this savage region, whose
terrors could not however appal the enterprise Of
man.
little beyond the summit of the Pass stands
the Hospice, or monastery of the brothers Of the
Augustine lorder, established for the succor of
travellers, like the better known one upon the Great
st. Bernard. 1t is plain substantial edfce of
stone, internally fitted up very comfortably with
dining and bedrooms nicer than those of most
hotels in this region. There are kept some Of
the famous dogs so sagaclous in reseulng travel
crs from the snow. The brothers who reside
here throughout the year are courteous and In
tegent, and must feel severely the prvations Of
their voluntary exile from the world amid these
barren rocks and eternal SHOWS. But they are
consoled by the consciousness of their usefulness
to their fellow beings, and whatever we may
think of the religion to which they are vowed,
the most violent sectarIan must reverence the
fruits of charity and self-denia which he here
sees it bear so abundantly.
From the summit the road descends as gradu-
ally as it had mounted, and after passing the
Simplsn inn enters gallery or tunnel SIX hun
dred feet long, cut through rock SO hard that 100
men were employed day and night for Is months
in piercing the passage. Then, crossing
ing waterfall, you enter the Gorge Of Condo"
one of the grandest and most sublime in all the
Alps. For miles you pass through a mere seam
in the rock, which rises up hundreds Of feet above
you like perpendicular walls, sometimes even
sky can be seen through the cleft, whose sides
are black and bare, and make night at midday.
At IseHa, you leave Switzerland and come
under the rule of the King of Sardinia. Having
shown your passport and opened your trunk,
YOU are allowed to proceed, and find Immediately
the road in much worse order than above, and
learn on inquiry that it is purposely neglected if
not wifully injured, by the King of Sardinia,
that travellers NAV be induced to cross Mont
Gents in preference, and thus some to his capital,
Turin, instead of to Milan. Can any thing be
more contemplate, than thus, for the sake OF a
petty profit, to destroy the noblest work in the
world
AS YOU descend, the brown soil becomes green,
pines give place to luxuriant chesnuts, rich pas
lures, and fields of maize spread out on either
hand, the trellised vines are laden with grapes,
white villages with tall square towers are perched
in every nook of the hills the very air seems more
balmy and the sky bluer, and as you enter Domo
dOssola and read the soft-soundlng names on
the signs, you find that you are indeed In
Jr.1y. W. N. G.