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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A mountain group in the Rhaetian Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy. The highest elevation is Piz Bernina, rising to 4,049 m (13,284 ft). Bernina Pass connects Switzerland and Italy by road and rail.

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  • Bernina Alps, this morning, one of the party happened to slip near the great gulley known as the Gouffre.

    Philistia Grant Allen 1873

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