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Encyclopedia Britannica



MONT CENIS

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 762 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MONT CENIS , a pass (6893 ft.) in Savoy (France) which forms the limit between the Cottian and Graian Alps. A carriage road was built across it between 1803 and 18io by
Napoleon
 , while a light railway (named after its inventor, Mr. Fell, and worked by English
engine
 -drivers) was opened alongside the road in 1868, but was destroyed in 1871, on the opening of the tunnel. This tunnel (highest point 4249 ft.) is really 17 m. west of the pass, below the Col de Frejus. From
Chambery
  the line runs up the Isere valley, but soon bears through that of the Arc or the Maurienne past St
Jean
  de Maurienne to Modane (61 m. from
Chambery
 ). The tunnel is 8 m. in length, and leads to Bardonneche, some way below which, at Oulx (18 m. from Modane) the line joins the road from the Mont Genevre. Thence the valley of the Dora Riparia is followed to
Turin
  (641 m. from Modane). The carriage road mounts the Arc valley for 16 m. from Modane to Lanslebourg, whence it is 8 m. to the hospice, a little way beyond the summit of the pass. The descent lies through the Cenis valley to
Susa
  (37 M. from Modane) where the road joins the railway. Tc the
south
 -west of the Mont Cenis is the Little Mont Cenis (7166 ft.) which leads from the summit
plateau
  (in Italy) of the main pass to the Etache valley on the French slope and so to Bramans in the Arc valley (7 M. above Modane). This pass was crossed in 1689 by the Vaudois, and by some authors is believed to have been " Hannibal's Pass." (W. A. B. C.)


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