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Show ONE MORE WONDERFUL ROAD Great Highway Through the Dolomites Dolom-ites Connects Lake District of Italy and Bavaria. In May, 1910, tne new Highway through the Dolomites, running from Botzen to Toblach, was finally thrown open. It Is a miracle of able engineering and servos as connoctlng link between the Lako district or Italy and Bavaria. Or, It one has large cities tor one's obJecUve volnts, between Milan or Venice and Munich. It Is worth trying, try-ing, Bays a writer In Harper's Weekly, Week-ly, to convey an Impression of the ; magnificent scenery, the plcturesquo nnd wonderful country through wnlcti ' this highroad, us smooth and perfect as Rlversldo Drive, since the recent repairs, leads one. Botzen on the south and Toblach on 1 tho north aro the entrance gates to ; the great, gaunt Dolomites. It was a . burghe ot Botzen, one lietnrlch Hunt- er, who first obtained permission to I bow a road from the Brenner Pass to Dotzcn. He began the undertaking In ktho year 1314 A. D., and It Is to be hoped thnt his happy ghost rejoices today In the perfect fulfilment of his idea. I The one disappointment to the motorist mo-torist on this great road is that the short cut from Botzen to Vigo dl Kas-sa, Kas-sa, leading through the lovely Eggen-Thai Eggen-Thai and past the Karer See, Is olosed j to motors. For those who cun foot It It Is worth while to bid ease farewell I for a day or so and loiter through I the wonderful valley, making the ascent as-cent ot the lonely Kare, going up be-tweeu be-tweeu the gloomy chalk cliffs, along steep ridges, looking far away over ! the valley and the rolling mountains beyond, and so learning really to know and feel these gaunt,. ghosts of I mountains that have earned by tholr j wbltoness and ready reflections the I title "Mountains of Light," |
