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DOLOMITES, THE , a See also:mountain See also:district in the See also:South Tirolese See also:Alps, though sometimes it is erroneously considered to See also:form See also:part of some other See also:chain than the Alps. The distinguishing feature of this district is that it is composed of magnesian See also:limestone, which rises in peaks of a most singular degree of sharpness and streaked by See also:veins of the most startling See also:colours. Nowadays it has become well known to tourists, who, however, keep mainly to a few See also:great centres, though most of the more striking peaks were first ascended in the See also:late sixties and See also:early seventies of the 19th See also:century by See also:English mountaineers. Roughly speaking the See also:Dolomite region lies between the See also:Brenner railway from Franzensfeste to See also:Trent (W.) and the road over the See also:Monte Croce Pass from Innichen in the See also:Drave valley by way of the Sexten glen and the Piave valley to See also:Belluno and See also:Feltre (E.). On the See also:north it is limited by the railway See also:line from Innichen to Franzenfeste, and on the south by the railway and road from Trent to Feltre. The highest See also:summit is the Marmolata (10,972 ft.), but far more typical are the Sorapiss, the See also:Cimon della Pala, the Langkofel, the Pelmo, the Drei Zinnen, the Sass See also:Moor and the Rosengarten (see See also:Anna). Among the See also:chief tourist resorts are St See also:Ulrich (in the Groden valley), See also:San Martino di Castrozza (near Primiero), Caprile and Cortina d'Ampezzo. Besides the Dolomites included in the above region there are several other Dolomite See also:groups (though less extensive) in the Alps. N.W. of Trent rises the Tosa See also:group, while in See also:Switzerland there are the Piz d'Aela group, S.W. of Bergiin on the Albula Pass route, and the curious little group N. of the See also:village of Splugen, besides other isolated peaks between the St Gotthard and Lukmanier Passes. In See also:Dauphine itself (the See also:home of the geologist See also:Dolomieu) the mountain districts of the Royannais, of the Vercors, and of the Devoluy (all S.W. of See also:Grenoble) are more or less Dolomitic in See also:character. See J. See also:Gilbert and G.

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Churchill, The Dolomite Mountains (See also:London, 1864) ; See also:Miss L. Tuckett, Zigzagging among Dolomites (London, 1871) ; P. Grohmann, Wanderungen in den Dolomiten (See also:Vienna, 1877) ; L. Sinigaglia, Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites (London, 1896) ; The Climbs of See also:Norman-Neruda (London, 1899) ; V. See also:Wolf von Glanvell, Dolomitenfuhrer (Vienna, 1898) ; J. See also:Ball, Western Alps (new ed., London, 1898, See also:section 9, Rte. P. See also:French Dolomites). (W. A. B.

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