Val de Travers, a valley in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. Near the villages of Travers and Couvet, both on the line of rail from Neuchâtel to Pontarlier, are great asphalt-mines (see ASPHALT), the stratum being over 18 feet thick.
Val de Travers
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 416
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