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STELVIO

Volume 20 · 50 words · 1860 Edition

a celebrated pass across the Alps where they separate the Tyrol from Lombardy. It leads from Bormio in Italy to Glurns in the Tyrol, and the carriage-road by this pass, which was opened in 1824, is the loftiest in Europe, being at its highest point 9100 feet above the sea.