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A wayside; cross : Tyrol 



No other country of its (Tyrol) size, it is safe to say. has in the course of the last 

 twenty centuries witnessed such gritn fighting; no other pigmy territory has been swept, 

 partly in consequence of its geographical position, by vaster movements of marauding hordes, 

 or has been turned into a mediseval cock-pit oftener and more ruthlessly. Nowhere on the 

 globe do we find within such a limited area a more varied agglomeration of the remnants 

 of conquering races who, when each in its turn went under, sought and found a last sanc- 

 tuary in the inaccessible alpine fastnesses of the "Land in the Mountains," the refugees 

 being naturally the fittest of their kind to survive.— W. A. BailliE-Grohman. 



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