SOME NOTES OF A JOURNEY IN THE ALPS OF 

 EUROPE AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF 

 N.W. AMERICA. 



"The best image whicn the world can give of Paradise is in the 

 slope of the meadows, orchards, and corn-fields on the sides of a 

 great Alp, with its purple rocks and eternal snows above ; this 

 excellence not being in any wise a matter referable to feeling or 

 individual preferences, but demonstrable by calm enumeration 

 of the number of lovely colours on the rocks, the varied group- 

 ing of the trees, and quantity of noble incidents in stream, crag, 

 or cloud, presented to the eye at any given moment." Ruskin. 



As many lovers of alpine plants have no opportunity of 

 seeing them in a wild state, I have thought it well to include 

 a few notes of my first short excursion in an alpine country, 

 which may serve to give some notion of such regions to those 

 who have no better means of knowing anything of it. They 

 relate no exciting accounts of attempts to mount any peaks, 

 but only deal, in passing, with one of the many texts that may 

 be read in the great book of the Alps. 



The first day's work was devoted to the ascent of the Grande 

 Saleve, which, though not a great mountain, and with green 

 meadows instead of snow at its top, is nearly 5000 feet high, 

 and is a way of commencing training for more serious work. 



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