THE ENGADINE. 
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CHAPTER XXIV. 
THE ENGADINE. 
The Engadine, or valley of the Inn, from the 
Maloja, nearly to Kufstein, is a geotectonic valley. 
The upper portion can be followed down the Val 
Bregaglia, by Roveredo to Bellinzona, down the Ticino 
to Locarno, even beyond which it can be traced far 
into Piedmont. 
The Upper Engadine is in the main a district of 
Gneiss, capped by Crystalline schists, interrupted here 
and there by Granite and with troughs of Sedi- 
mentary rocks, so much altered, however, by heat 
and pressure as to be almost unrecognisable, but 
suggesting that the whole district was once covered 
by fossiliferous strata. 
Granite occupies a considerable district between 
Bevers and Piz d’Err (the Val Be vers being cut into 
it), both sides of the Julier road from the pass down 
to Silvaplana, a large tract south of Pontresina, and 
again the massif of the Monte della Disgracia. 
