Bernina, a mountain of the Rhætian Alps, 13,290 feet high, in the Swiss canton of Grisons, with remarkable and extensive glaciers. Its summit was first attained in 1850. The Bernina Pass, which attains an elevation of 7642 feet, and over which a carriage-road was completed in 1864, leads from Pontresina to Poschiavo.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 100
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