6 Account of a jotmyite the 
placed here a pyramid 12 feethigh. It was visible for three 
years, but has gradually disappeared, and has not been seen 
for some years. In the sun the Thermometer was at the 
freezing point; in the shade 3° of Reaumur below it; (25°, 
25 of Fahrenheit.) A bright sun shone on us, through a 
vault of indigo biue, in which not a spot was obscured by a 
cloud. To the North, at the distance of nearly 100 miles, 
rose the black ridge of Jura: farther east, lay the mountains 
of ee and of a 3—to the east St. Gotheed: and 
Tenentte and the little village shone in the smiling plain, be- 
set with fields and woods ;—on the other the. Vale d’Aoste, 
with her cheerful river, extended her Te- 
lieve the eye. The glaciers of Bossons, des Bois, d 7 eee 
tiere and of Tour seemed sliding into the meadows—while 
a ees waves of the: ret a fisthe seemed ed hushed into a 
the J — ert, with the cece deg 
ee eviecans We ee an ohana woe a half on the small 
plain to fhe: south of the crowning ridge, and here four of — | 
our guides laid themselves on de snow and slept for some 
respira- 
minutes. We did not feel fatigued, but found our respira 
tion much quickened and our pulse greatly accelerated 5 th 
was particularly the case with Mr. Howard who is ofa faller 
habit than myself. Though we had provisions, none of us 
felt an inclination to eat ; “but our thirst was great, and we 
found vinegar and water the most refreshing beverage. We 
_* istol three times nearly filled with panei and well 
; the report was that of a squib. 
ae we began our descent with an intention to examine 
the different rocks that broke through the snow. ‘The high- 
est is about 350 feet below the summit, formed of 
tables, that lay loose on each other, and of whieh feldspar. is 
‘ the predominant EE The petit Mulet is of the same 
formation—and IT may here add, that, to be minute wo 
only be to give you what has already been printed. 
The descent was perhaps more fatiguing than the ascent 3 
had been, and far more alarming, for we now saw the crev- 
ices that yawned beneath us; and the reflection of a bright 
sess ee 
