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whelming grandeur breaks upon the traveller. You feel that you are in the aia Coda ae 
of the monarch of the Andes. There is sublimity in his kingly look, of which the oc n might 
be proud. 
* All that expands the spirit, yet tum à 
Gathers e ound this summit, as if t 
How earth may pierce to heaven, ss tid vain man below,’ 
It looks d fr ons the ~~ first. Now and then an expanse of thin, sky-like vapor, would 
cut the mounta n twain, and the dome, islanded in the deep blue of the upper decret 
seemed to be elong n more uà heaven em to Paa We knew that Chimbor razo was more 
twice tl = g p the moun- 
tain's side till he ed lik } i the mighty white, , but giving scd n de- 
spair four thou sd ami w thesumm tl B 
but the hero of Spanish- Americam Independence ponpes = dubated man. Las! : p € 
the philosophic ebrius . and attains t f 19,600 fee e hi "e 
point reached by m cis a the aid of a balloon; but the dome remains nee ci pze his foot. 
Yet none of these seie increase our admiration, The mountain has a tongue which speaks 
ery 
ni gni tnde Steiniohes the Impression of oye ee wonder, rad pier which ud mee are 
env tif rolativo elev: 
reduced by incite with the surrounding m tains. Its ioo » 21,420 feet, or forty- 
five times the height of Strasburg — d gus hee ac it otherwise, the fall of one pound 
rom the top of ea e would mpera of water 30°. One fourth of this is 
perpetually covered with snow, so that ed acide pnm, . Chimpurazu—the. = untain of snow— 
d DERE 
very approp t , 
gleamed with voleanic fires, There is a hot ing on the nor! th side, an imm ount of 
debris EM the slope pem w “the erty const chiefly ‘of fine-grained, peteca 
l y Chimbo- 
tr 
PI sels 
razo 1s very lik 1 i hyti 
Bouguer found | it made the plumb-line deviat eT or 8", 
PE 
Narrower, but ou than those of the Alps, the — bina and sinks in the effort to com- 
st t 
im m ain appears e be 
much thin crust, and the strata thrown on their vertical edges, teveatag dee p, dark ehasms, 
at seem to lead to the confines of sp lower world. init that of 
Ordesa in the Pyrenees, is 3,200 feet dee els but here are rents in the side of Chimborazo in 
look u 
out as i 
condor, Tiie -€— in ibit read, guter in the - Fw the proud bird fearlessly wheels over the 
orig h and t sails over the dome of Chimborazo. Could 
ireen speak, g ld h gi f the landscape beneath him whe: 
e pied isa dandis miles in diameter. If 
what cH E] " hateht Rit ti Ditata t 
e 
t Chimborazo is steeper than the Alp-king; and steepness isa "ur more quickly ap- 
ud ted . *Mont Blanc (says a w zae r in ers Magazine’) 1s 
preciate rur epi Segrar A? ett a Ar 1e d ard t stability; but € aig eras 
reckless architecture of the Matterhorn brings th reris n fairly on his knees, respect 
akin to that felt for the leaning tower of Pisa, or the soaring pi niwerp. 
: rt 
White Mountain’ is the natural and almost uniform name of the Highest m ED tad in all 
countries; thus Himalaya, Mont Bla mo B Hoen — Sierra Nevada, Ben Nevis, Snowdon, Lebanon, 
‘l tates, 
Us a hi seid than Chimboraz 0 has been questioned; 
bebes D iboldv’s statement t that the condor fic r dies ‘ sand feet above th d summit of Pichincha. 
Baron > p. in his ascent of ie saw us pee flying at the height of wi 18,000 feet; 
Dr. Hooker found crows and ravens d the Himalayas at 16,500 feet; and flocks o: wild geese 
are said ^ fly over the peak of Kintschinghow, 22,756 feet. 
