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the lightest of marching order, with full pockets only, he 

 waa glad to capture the fugitive some days after, at 

 Botzen. Having picked up a welcome budget of 

 rs at Trent, he entered the 'Dolomite country/ then 

 so little known, now the paradise of artistic tourists, and 

 proceeded in the direction of one of its finest peaks, the 

 Ifannolata. 



Journal, Sept. \th. 



' This morning, whilst warming myself dreamily during 

 the rain at the kitchen fire at Cavalese, I got an excellent 

 geological lesson from the boiling of certain thin porridge 

 le of Indian corn (polenta) and milk. The air-bubbles 

 disengaged during the process formed the most beautiful 

 elevation craters, often with little interior ones, formed 

 by the immediate sequence of another bubble at the same 

 point. ... I walked from Cavalese to Vigo, in order 

 to understand fully Von Buch's section of the adjacent 

 beds of rock, and in this I succeeded beyond my expecta- 

 tions. But the strata of limestone and sandstone do not 

 all dip towards the axis, as he has represented, but some 

 from it, and with evident disturbance. I went in search 

 of minerals to a dealer's, but only found some very 

 indifferent specimens. 



* The scenery from Vigo to Campedello, and from that 



to Oana/ea, is in the highest degree striking in fact, I 



know nothing of its kind to compare with it: one is 



entirely surrounded by jagged peaks of dolomite. The 



aina/ing crags of the Lang Kofel come into view near 



iello, and afterwards the magnificent outworks 



of the Marmolata and Sasso di Vyl Fredda arc seen, in 



all their majestic beauty. As I wished to examine the 



1 more minutely, as well as Von Buch's sec- 



tiuiiH between Groden and Colfusco in the Al.teier-Thal, 



-aile.l myself of a tolerable horse traek which wound 



through the fop-M. and. after passing close under the 



ipic.es of the L,I,._. Kot'.-i, entered the Qrtfdener- 



I th' II proceeded to se;de the ra I I;_M dividing 



Fassa fr"in GtaOdeiL bin before ire had ascended for an 



