Excerpt from A Tour in the Alps of Dauphine, And, a Tour in the Carpathians He at once entered into my feelings and took me straight into the ticket-office, not to the guichet. There I found the ticket man, a most nice looking young man, quite aware of what he had done, and he had thought I should come back. I thankfully pocketed my change, about 30 francs. At Cucoz there was the douane, and I had some coffee, and bought sandwiches for myself and Anderegg. The mountains looked beautiful, very little snow, and they were cutting corn all along the line. I thought of that cold morning with G. And W. All over snow, and the Arc tumbling among blocks of ice. Arrived at St. Michel at 10 o'clock, and had no difficulty in forwarding my luggage to Grenoble. Then I repaired to the Hotel de l'union, and got a man to help to carry my luggage up to Valloire. I had a very decent meal, and at three started for Valloire: W e crossed the Arc and the railway over bridges, and then began to mount a very steep stony path, every now and then getting to a piece of a good road they were making. It was very hot, and I was resigned to this sort of thing for four hours, when, to my joy, the St Michel man said that in another petite heure we should be on the road, and it would be flat all the rest of the way to Valloire. It turned out quite true, so that it was a most excellent kind of walk to begin with. The St. Michel man told me his name was Pascal Ilarion, he was a chasseur, and knew all the mountains about St. Michel and Modane. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.