Simplon, a mountain in the Swiss Alps, in the canton of Valais, traversed by the famous Simplon Pass (6594 ft. high), which stretches 41 m. from Brieg in Valais to Domo d'Ossola in Piedmont, passing over 611 bridges and through many great tunnels, built by Napoleon 1800-6.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Simoom * Simpson, Sir James Young