Plate 22: Summit of the Great St. Bernard, Including the Hospice or Convent, The spiry needle, or peaks of the Barasson, rears its head at the back of the Hospice, the Droass on the left, and the formidable Mont Velan, covered with snow, fills the background. The kind of gallery, seen, as it were, above the road, serves as a passage, pipe, or conduit, for conveying water to the convent; and the column, near the lake, is the limit between the Sardinian and Vallaisan states