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SCENERY OF SWITZERLAND. 
Stream.* Most of the tributaries in this district enter 
the Valais through gorges more or less similar to 
that of the Trient; those of the Lizerne, the Salenze, 
and the Triage are the most remarkable. 
The station of Vernayaz, at the opening of the 
gorge, which is well worth a visit, stands actually on 
the axis of the Carboniferous fold, and quarries of 
slate occur on both sides of the valley. They 
alternate with layers of Puddingstone. The Chloritic 
schists are well seen at the gorge of the Trient, 
which is cut through them. 
From Martigny starts the great road over to 
St. Bernard, and Brockedon, who knew the passes 
well, assures us in a passage with which I entirely 
concur, that, besides the wildness of this Alpine pass, 
and the beauty of the valley of Aosta, through which 
the road to Turin continues after it leaves the moun- 
tains, “the kind reception which the traveller ex- 
periences from the religious community at the hospice 
on the summit of the St. Bernard, is remembered as 
long as he can be grateful for the devotion which 
induces these excellent men to offer to the travellers 
* Gerlach, Beitr. s. Geol. K, d. Schio,, L. IX. p. Ii. Favre, 
however, Rcch. Gc'ol., vol. ii. seems to indicate that the rock 
through wliich the Trient runs, yields rather more easily to 
water action, 
