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crevasse. But in the ordinary copies we see him in a less un- 

 dignified posture, standing upright and leaning on his alpenstock 

 in the ordinary attitude of a glissade. 1 



As we have seen from his correspondence with young Isaac 

 Bourrit about the Gouter expedition, the philosopher did not 

 suffer gladly reflections on the mountaineer. 



1 The drawings were ateo issued, with slight modifications, as hand-coloured 

 lithographs by Kellner at Geneva, and it is from these that the plates here 

 given have been taken. Copies of the lithographs are at the Royal Geographical 

 Society. For further details the reader may consult Mr. Baillie Grohman's fine 

 work, Sport in Art (London, 1913). 



