EXPLANATION
OF
THE PLATES AND CUTS.
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The Baths o f Brida, in the Tarentaise.
T h e houses in front are a part of the boardinghouses.—
The Baths are situated about half a mile
higher up the valley, and close to the bed of the river,
but are not visible from this station. — The mountain
on the right, which is truncated, or nearly flat at the
top, is called the Pan de Sucre, or Sugar Loaf; it is
about seven miles distant from the station. This mountain
is composed of granular gypsum, which, when
broken, is as white as the finest loaf-sugar. The singular
Peak beyond the Pan de Sucre, with two points
at the summit, is considerably higher than the Pan de
Sucre, but it is more than six miles beyond it. This
peak appears isolated, but it is connected by a range
of rocks behind, with the snow-capped mountains called
in this valley, the Planey. The distance of the Planey
from the station where the drawing was taken, may be
about fifteen miles. As the lower line of perpetual
snow, in this part of Savoy, is about 8000 feet above
the level of the sea, the height of this mountain cannot
be less than about 12,000 feet; the drawing was taken in
the month of August 1821. The village of Villard Goi-
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