Excerpt from The Edge of the Orient
For some time after leaving Vienna the route traverses a beautiful plain rising gradually into the hills, where the famous Voslau wine is pro duced. At Gloggnitz'you reach the commence ment of the famous Semmering Railway, the pioneer of mountain railroads, and begin the as cent oi the Styrian Alps, going through fifteen tunnels and over eighteen viaducts in the first thirty-five miles, while beautiful vistas of gray cliffs and green valleys are continually opening to you as you Shoot out into the sunshine from the dark caverns which pierce the heart of the moun tains.
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