Tarasp and its mineral waters / from the French of Dr. Killias ; compiled and edited by N. B. Whitby.

  • Killias, Eduard, 1829-1891.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Tarasp and its mineral waters / from the French of Dr. Killias ; compiled and edited by N. B. Whitby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    up with rides and foot-paths, with occasional open spaces of mossy turf, something like a very exten- sive English park. The chain of mountains which separates the Engadine from the Valtelline of North Italy and the Tyrol, is also pierced by numerous cols or valleys of the wildest and most romantic character, allowing the pedestrian to go by one and return by another parallel valley. I mention one particularly fine walk : from Tarasp through the woods and over the plateau of S. Jean by the Val Lischanna, leaving the summit of Piz Lischan to the left; then across the magnificent Lischanna glacier, descending by Piz Cornet to the Val Ses- wenna, and returning by the Scarl Thai, through a sublime gorge between Piz Pisoc and Piz S. John, whose hoary summits are some 6000 feet overhead; then by a path escarped on the side of the precipice many hundred feet above the furious torrent beneath, affording as it winds through and under the sweet-smelling pines, now a glimpse of some exquisite “ bit,” half pastoral half wild, then a ruined castle and saucy-looking village perched on the top of the opposite alp, varied occa- sionally by more extensive views of the valley of the Inn, with the peaks and glaciers of the Silv- rettas and the mountains of the Voralberg in the background. The neighbourhood also abounds in “ view points,” e.g., Piz Chiampatch (between 9000 and 10,000 feet), a very easy ascent of three to four