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Picturesque tour from Geneva to Milan, by way of the Simplon : illustrated with thirty six coloured views of the most striking scenes and of the principal works belonging to the new road constructed over that mountain / engraved from designs by J. and J. Lory ... and accompanied with particulars historical and descriptive by Frederic Schoberl
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is accessible on two sides, and the cascade may be viewed verynear. The drawing was taken from a hillock, where the travel-lers are assembled. The road to Martigny winds along in theback of the picture; it is terminated by the mountains whichbound the Valais on the south; the top of the glacier whichrises above them is that of Mont Combin, on the ridge of whichis the celebrated Hospice of the great St. Bernard.

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