2022 (original: 1861), Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch, The Alps:
In hot summers, when the power of the sun strikes down most vehemently into these deeply sunk "tobels," the stone-mosses get not a drop of water for weeks. […] The shady path ascends along the tobel; we try a second excursion into the forest and penetrate into its pillared halls.
1861, The London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, page 586, review of Berlepsch's Alps:
[…] and [it tells of] how "the souls of misers, unjust guardians, and usurers" are imprisoned for ages in the "tobels," or pathless, barren gorges which lie scattered here and there between the inaccessible cliffs.
