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coins— many of them, it is said, of at least Roman antiquity —
for new. We saw no trace of any coins whatever ; the treasury
appeared to be entirely empty.
The wood of whicli the chapel is Ijuill has heen stated to
be a pine that does not grow on this side of the chain. We
did not verify tlie assertj
tion, which lias l^een used
to support a legend that
'
once upon a time
'
there
was a frequented pass
Avhei"e the Zea Glacier
now pours its frozen
billows through the steep
mountain - walls.
'
Once
upon a time there was
and there never was,'—
to quote an original and
very charming formida
common in Miugrelian
fairy - tales. The story
involves a physical im-
possibility,
but is worth
recording as a parallel to
the Alpine legends of a
similar nature which have
been convincingly, and I
should hope finally, de-
molished by Dr. Richter
in a paper in the Zeit-
AN OS.SETE GRANDFATHER
schrift for 1891 of the
German and Austrian Alpine Club. Tht- time of pilgrimage is
which are in one case deeply serrated white lioms of an ibex, in the oilier, smooth. The tur is
pretty general throu