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Excerpt from The Hand-Book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont: Including the Protestant Valleys of the Waldenses He has, however, no hesitation in speaking of r the merits of the second section, of this volume; relating to Savov and Piedmont, which has been prepared by a friend and fellow-traveller, most intimately acquainted with those countries, which he has ex lored in almost every direction, and on many di erent occasions. The routes contained in it possess great interest, from the total want of any other information respecting the country the traverse, from the extreme accuracy with whio they are described, and from their being derived, not from books, but from personal knowledge. They will probably be the means of throwing open to English travellers a region little visited hitherto, but possessing, from its romantic beauties, the highest claim to attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.