DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.9695#0047
INTRODUCTION
xlv
they began the ascent of Mt. Cenis " which wee found to
be steepie and Rockey1." Having passed the boundary
between Savoy and Piedmont, they continued the ascent to
the " faire, cleire Lake" on the top1, near which was the
building erected for the reception of Princess Christine,
when, a year previously, she had journeyed from France to
Savoy as the affianced bride of Victor-Amadeus, the Duke's
eldest son. At this " howse" the Duke himself was in
waiting for Pindar's party, and " his Lordshipp went to
visitt and thanck his highnes for the great honour and
loveinge entertainement which hee had received att Turin1."
Now began the "discent of the mountaine1," which was
" wonderfull Steepie, soe that every man allighted, my Lord
beinge carried downe in a chaire betweene Two men2." At
Lanslebourg the travellers dined at The Three Kings. On
the Piedmont side of the mountain Mundy found the patois
" hard for us to understand3."
From Lanslebourg, the road lay along the valley of the
Arc, " there beinge all the way great falls of Water4,"
thence to St Michel and St Jean de Maurienne, " a Stronge
walled Towne4" and the only one (except Chambery)
"among the Alpes" commended by Mundy. All the rest
"were very poorely built and as poorely inhabited5," the
people, too, were, many of them, sufferers from goitre, some
of them having "greate Wenns under their Chinns...as
bigg as a mans head5." At Aiguebelle, on the 29th
August, the party split up, Pindar and his immediate
entourage going on to Montmelian, while the " Servants
and stuffe remained heere6." On the arrival of the baggage
at Chambery, the servants heard that their master had
"passed forward" to Aiguebelette. At Chambery, Mundy
and his companions enjoyed the comforts provided at The
Golden Apple, "a Compleat howse and very good enter-
tainement5." The town, "the laste...within the Alpes," is
described as " the fairest" with " handsome comely buildings
tiled with slates5."
1 See p. 113.
4 See p. 115.
- See p. 113 f.
5 See p. 117.
3 See p. 114.
0 See p. 116.
xlv
they began the ascent of Mt. Cenis " which wee found to
be steepie and Rockey1." Having passed the boundary
between Savoy and Piedmont, they continued the ascent to
the " faire, cleire Lake" on the top1, near which was the
building erected for the reception of Princess Christine,
when, a year previously, she had journeyed from France to
Savoy as the affianced bride of Victor-Amadeus, the Duke's
eldest son. At this " howse" the Duke himself was in
waiting for Pindar's party, and " his Lordshipp went to
visitt and thanck his highnes for the great honour and
loveinge entertainement which hee had received att Turin1."
Now began the "discent of the mountaine1," which was
" wonderfull Steepie, soe that every man allighted, my Lord
beinge carried downe in a chaire betweene Two men2." At
Lanslebourg the travellers dined at The Three Kings. On
the Piedmont side of the mountain Mundy found the patois
" hard for us to understand3."
From Lanslebourg, the road lay along the valley of the
Arc, " there beinge all the way great falls of Water4,"
thence to St Michel and St Jean de Maurienne, " a Stronge
walled Towne4" and the only one (except Chambery)
"among the Alpes" commended by Mundy. All the rest
"were very poorely built and as poorely inhabited5," the
people, too, were, many of them, sufferers from goitre, some
of them having "greate Wenns under their Chinns...as
bigg as a mans head5." At Aiguebelle, on the 29th
August, the party split up, Pindar and his immediate
entourage going on to Montmelian, while the " Servants
and stuffe remained heere6." On the arrival of the baggage
at Chambery, the servants heard that their master had
"passed forward" to Aiguebelette. At Chambery, Mundy
and his companions enjoyed the comforts provided at The
Golden Apple, "a Compleat howse and very good enter-
tainement5." The town, "the laste...within the Alpes," is
described as " the fairest" with " handsome comely buildings
tiled with slates5."
1 See p. 113.
4 See p. 115.
- See p. 113 f.
5 See p. 117.
3 See p. 114.
0 See p. 116.