Par-delà la rive gauche de ce fleuve, qui formait comme une suite d’immenses taches blanches au milieu des campagnes verdoyantes, son œil ravi apercevait distinctement chacun des sommets de l’immense mur que les Alpes forment au nord de l’Italie.
Beyond the left bank of this river, which formed so to speak a series of huge white patches in the midst of the green fields, his enraptured eye caught distinctly each of the summits of the immense wall with which the Alps enclose Italy to the north.