The watershed of Europe
At the barren Lunghin pass (8,500 feet) in southern Switzerland one is greeted by a sign as incongruous as the Narnian lamppost. In sparkling red and yellow it indicates directions to the Black Sea, North Sea and Adriatic. From here the Inn trickles east to join the Danube and thence on to the Black Sea; fifty metres north of the sign a tiny rill dribbles through marsh cotton to blend with the Rhein and onwards to Basle and the North Sea; here too the waters of the Aua da Sett froth westwards to join the Mera which cascades south to Lake Como, the Po and ultimately the Adriatic by the Venetian lagoon. This is a sketch from last summer of the Inn (as in Innsbruck) at Sils just a few miles from where it rises.
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