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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 762 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONT CENIS , a pass (6893 ft.) in See also:

Savoy (See also:France) which forms the limit between the Cottian and Graian See also:Alps. A See also:carriage road was built across it between 1803 and 18io by See also:Napoleon, while a See also:light railway (named after its inventor, Mr. See also:Fell, and worked by See also:English See also:engine-drivers) was opened alongside the road in 1868, but was destroyed in 1871, on the opening of the See also:tunnel. This tunnel (highest point 4249 ft.) is really 17 m. See also:west of the pass, below the See also:Col de See also:Frejus. From See also:Chambery the See also:line runs up the See also:Isere valley, but soon bears through that of the Arc or the Maurienne past St See also: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 See also: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 See also:hospice, a little way beyond the See also:summit of the pass. The descent lies through the Cenis valley to See also:Susa (37 M. from Modane) where the road joins the railway. Tc the See also:south-west of the Mont Cenis is the Little Mont Cenis (7166 ft.) which leads from the summit See also:plateau (in See also:Italy) of the See also:main pass to the Etache valley on the See also: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 " See also:Hannibal's Pass." (W. A.

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