This is the great pass of Falzarego, 7,056 feet above the level of the sca. Paswes generally go through valleys, bot this tremendous pass, the highest on the Great Dolomite Road, leads one over the top of a mountain, or rather through the cleft semmit thereof. On either side rise movees of grey and reddish rock looking exactly like lamps of iron-ore taken from a fire and magnified a million fold. 80 far as vegetation of avy kind is concerned, the iron ore and the Dolomite roks are in exactly the same position. One is as inncernt of a blade of grats as the other, The contrast between the violent reds and yellows of the barren rock and the bright green P fidds of the valleys is one of the greatest carina of the Dolomites. To-day the is intensely bine. There are few clouds! and one of the few is wrapped sronnd the summit of a barren pesk evidently not more than a mile off, thus giving an idea of how high we are. impression of altitude is borne out by the liege patches of snow which one could reach io ten minutes if be cared to do #0, and by the coldness of the Afar off stretches castle, some like Gothic cathedral inpomerable spires great and little. There sons grat salt of rock slong I walked for an hour, It was cervral thonrand feet high and looked like gigantic table tilted orer on its tide, That it was tilted over at some time millions of years ago per-re can be no doubt. I sin glad, the vicinity when the accident took place, As this last section of the Great Dolomite Road,—the Cortina-Falzsrego section,—was only opened on September 11, 1909, the above remarks on the scenery it has disclosed to the pedestrian and the motorist are not, 1 hope, out of place, Certainly the pedestrian seems to be making good use of the new road, for on my way from Toblach to Bozen T must have pasced buodreds of lusty wakers. From my own experience of it I should eay that it is the ticest road in Eorope, a road of which the Romans might have been proud. It is so well and evenly made and winds t0 deliber rately up even the steepest hills that a child could traverse it, if he took it by easy stages, If one does not like to walk all the way be canal any point get into one of the excellent Government motor-cars traverse it from end to end at lea-t once a day. If be fleds these motor cars too expensive be can avail himeelf of th hotel wagonettes which carry sigh from town to town for a very trifling sum Then there sre many good hotels where be can pat up. Que drawback. Fo far as the pedestrian iveoncerued, is undoubtedly the motor trafic which will probably become greater with each succeeding year.
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