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Viii PREFACE. 



not one of the views shows a position of any peril. I 

 was anxious to avoid everything that might appear like 

 exaggeration ; and for this reason a sketch (" Descend- 

 ing the Mountain") which Mr. Horschelt had made was 

 omitted, lest the daring hardihood displayed therein 

 might excite doubts as to its truth. 



In the descriptions, also, it was equally my aim to 

 keep rather within the limits to which I might have 

 gone. Some forms, perhaps, appeared to me more 

 grand, and certain bright effects more beautiful, than 

 they might have done to another : however, I am not 

 aware of having given to either an undue importance or 

 a too heightened colouring. What I saw is described 

 as / saw it. My wish has been to reflect back on the 

 page those pictures which, as they passed, my memory 

 had retained; to impart to others the same vivid im- 

 pressions which my own mind had received. 



Charles Boner. 



St. Emeram, Ratisbon, 

 January 10, 1852. 



