Excerpt from The Edge of the Orient For some time after leaving Vienna the route traverses a beautiful plain rising gradually into the hills, where the famous Voslau wine is pro duced. At Gloggnitz'you reach the commence ment of the famous Semmering Railway, the pioneer of mountain railroads, and begin the as cent oi the Styrian Alps, going through fifteen tunnels and over eighteen viaducts in the first thirty-five miles, while beautiful vistas of gray cliffs and green valleys are continually opening to you as you Shoot out into the sunshine from the dark caverns which pierce the heart of the moun tains. 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.