ISBN: 9781459007666

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. The Woodcutter. Though I have not laid special stress on the fact that Tyrol possesses certain characteristics not to be met with in other parts of civilized Europe, the reader will no doubt have gathered this from the remarks in the preceding chapter. The survival of an ancient type is in Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. The Woodcutter. Though I have not laid special stress on the fact that Tyrol possesses certain characteristics not to be met with in other parts of civilized Europe, the reader will no doubt have gathered this from the remarks in the preceding chapter. The survival of an ancient type is in no class of the population so apparent as in the fraternity of the woodcutters. Cut off from the world, working in solitude amid the grandest of Alpine scenery, rough and uncouth in their exterior, inured to every danger, and hardy to quite an amazing degree, the "Holzhacker" affords a most interesting study not only for the artist, but also for those who delight in laying bare the vein of quaint originality mixed up with the other characteristics of a people untouched by that species of civilization which follows in the wake of tourists. The immense tracts of forest which are still to be found in the northern and centre districts ofTyrol, and which afford the staple resources of those parts, are generally speaking the property of the Crown. A large number of men are employed by Government in felling the timber, in cultivating new plantations, and in keeping in repair the huge wood- drifts which are established in these parts. From 3,000 to 4,000 men thus find sustenance in connexion with the "Forstwesen," or management of the forests, in Tyrol. These labourers are generally natives of neighbouring valleys, and in most cases they are younger sons of peasants-farmers who own the land theytill-whose miniature homestead, consisting perhaps of a few acres of the very poorest soil, or a patch of meadow sufficient to keep three or four cows, proves inadequate to sustain an increasing family. The eldest son usually remains with the father, nominally inheriting the w Books, History~~General, Tyrol-And-The-Tyrolese~~William-Adolph-Baillie-Grohman, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781459007666

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1877. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... tyrol and the tyrolese. chapter I. A Glimpse at the Landscape and the People. It may well amaze even those who have been whirled in the train through the two or three chief valleys of Tyrol, to learn that this country, with a population considerably less than half that of Yorkshire, contains five hundred and thirty-seven old castles. These Tyrolese castles form so picturesque a feature in scenery nearly always grand and striking, that the indulgent reader will excuse my inviting him to visit one of their number ere I lay before him the results of my experience amongst the people. To this end he will kindly accompany me up the steep path leading to the ponderous ironbarred old gate giving entrance to one of the most ancient and historically interesting of Tyrolese castles--the home of this volume,--and after ascending endless flights of stairs, find himself comfortably seated in an armchair in front of the broad oldfashioned window overlooking the whole of the country near. Lying at your feet is a goodly stretch of the smiling, exquisitely verdant valley of the Inn, skirted by two parallel rows of noble peaks terminating in the far distance with the glistening glacier world of the Oetz and Stubai Thaler. As your eye glances down the giddy height and follows the upward course of the broad swift Inn at your feet, as it winds like a band of silver through green meadows, eight old castles, the remains of what were once feudal strongholds, occupying the eminences of hills, or perched like swallows'' nests on the precipitous slopes of the adjacent mountains, become discernible. Interspersed between these hoary relics rise the amazingly slender, needle-shaped spires of three churches, the houses belonging to each village clustering round the sacred edifice. Of the broadr... William Adolph Baillie-Grohman, Books, History, Tyrol And The Tyrolese; The People And The Land In Their Social, Sporting, And Mountaineering Aspects Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1459007662

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