This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...adding greatly to the strange wild beauty of the scene; then turning round, we had a fine view of the opposite mountains, the Flegere, the Breven, the Aiguilles Eouges, the Col de Balme, and the Mont Joli at the other end of the valley. All this time we were enjoying a soft, balmy air, the sweetest that can be imagined ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...adding greatly to the strange wild beauty of the scene; then turning round, we had a fine view of the opposite mountains, the Flegere, the Breven, the Aiguilles Eouges, the Col de Balme, and the Mont Joli at the other end of the valley. All this time we were enjoying a soft, balmy air, the sweetest that can be imagined, the sun being very hot, but the heat tempered by the proximity to this gigantic mass of ice. The next day we visited the Glacier du Bossons, attended by the same guide as before. Leaving our car and mules at the village near the foot, we walked through fields till we reached a hut with the high-sounding name of "Pavilion des Pyramides," for from this spot the wonderful pyramids of ice so striking on this glacier are seen. They are formed by the cracking of the body of the ice, where the glacier suddenly bends over a steeper part of the mountain side, and are from this spot seen in profile, looking like a set of gigantic and grotesque china vases of various shapes, from twenty to sixty feet in height, arranged on the top of the moraine which separated us from them, for we had not come to the foot of the glacier, but had ascended one side. The sun was shining brightly upon these pyramids, casting deep shadows, and greatly increasing the azure blue of the hollows. It is impossible to convey a clear idea of this picture to those who have never been in Switzerland, for there is nothing like it in Nature, except perhaps scenes in the arctic regions. THE ASCENT. 189 We were now on Mont Blanc, though it was but a single step up his mighty side, and when we had rested, our good-natured guide persuaded us that we should be ashamed to confess we had not set our foot on this glacier now we were so very near, so we toiled on through the wood fo...
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