Excerpt from ItalyThis is the true way to enter Italy; and there are still travellers who pass over the Alps, as all men had to do until the railway engineer ran his tunnels through the vast mountain walls which enclose Italy on the north. With the advent of the motor - car more tourists are beginning to use these ancient ways, and they do not find themselves lonely upon them, for, besides the peasantry of the districts through which they pass, there is, and has always been, a steady stream of traffic over the passes. The Italian workman, the peddler, the wayfarers of the humbler sort, have always stuck to the Open road on account of its cheapness. Rather than pay railway fares, or being without the money to do so, they trudge over the Alps.A trip over an Alpine pass in early summer is of deep interest. Climbing from the Swiss Side, our carriage or motor - car mounts steadily by smooth roads cleverly cut in the Slopes of the hills, so that the easiest way of ascent is taken. AS we rise the air grows colder and colder, and the snow-line draws nearer and nearer. Now the wheels of the carriage crunch and grind over ice and snow, and coats and wraps are drawn closer as the travellers thread the wintry pass.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.