Clear & bright. Coffee: \u2015 & the carriage packed, started at 5.<\/p>\n
Rose at 4.<\/p>\n
Walked up the steep ascent. \u2015 Above a village, \u02c7[6.30] (Gia\u00fane?) the view over the valley of the Dora, is most exquisite \u2015 a world of walnut foliage softened with light & distance, with snowy summits on each side. But beyond this, the views are dull & uninteresting, this only is one of the widest & loveliest of Alpine views. 7 1er Post (Moralet?) Italy shut out. 7.45 shortcut, cuckoos, calves, cows, & humans all going to Susa fair. 8 French artillery: Capt. \u2015 & dog. 9 RC<\/a> came up. \u2015 snow. 9.30. Road interesting, landscape ugly: zigzags. 9.40. Top of pass. 9.50. Barriera. 10.30. 2nd post, M. Cenizio. Dreary lake of ice & snow \u2015 fog \u2015 fall of snow, rain, glorious\u00a0 descent. \u2015 Furs. 12. \u02c7[3rd post] Lons le Bourg, lunch. Storm of rain: fuss about luggage. \u2015 1. Fuss about 3rd horses, & set off \u2015 1.15 \u2015\u2015 descent by river, \u2015 dull, monono<\/span>tonous, huge. 3.30 \u2015\u2015\u2015 village half way, change horses. Crags & depths. Immense fortress. Walk a little. \u2015 3.25. 4th post, Modane: valley more beautiful. River fine, descent always. 4.30. Pine valley & river. 5 \u2015 at 5th post \u2015 S. Michel: dirty village \u2015 diligence. \u2015 Great crags & wild torrent valley: \u2015 railway making. \u2015 By 6.15 at the Europa Inn, S. Giovanni Maurienne.\u00a0 New houses, dined at 7. Other arrivals. Girl of the keys.* Landlord & wine. Bed at 9.<\/p>\n Altogether the M. Cenis pass is not to be compared to the others for beauty or grandeur.<\/p>\n * This girl I accosted as \u201cMadame,\u201d taking her for the Landlady \u2015 but she said \u2015 [Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clear & bright. Coffee: \u2015 & the carriage packed, started at 5. Rose at 4. Walked up the steep ascent. \u2015 Above a village, \u02c7[6.30] (Gia\u00fane?) the view over the valley of the Dora, is most exquisite \u2015 a world of walnut foliage softened with light & distance, with snowy summits on each side. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10246"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10268,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nO dieu! Monsieurs! je fais la cuisine!
\nO God Sirs! I am the cook!<\/p>\n