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the. diinnies of the airs and’ at night, the ‘stars shone’ with‘a pa which 
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when rising, appear like” one sudden’ Has ‘as they emerged mi behind 
the bright snowy summits close to us, and their disappearance, when set« 
ting behind the peaks, was as sudden as we generally observed it to. be 
in their Gesu Hons by the moon, 
“We were surrounded by gigantic peaks, entirely cased in snow, and 
~ almost beyond the regions of animal and vegetable life, and an awful 
silence prevailed, except when broken by the thundering peals of falling 
avalanches 5 ; nothing met our eyes, resembling the scenery in the haunts 
of men 3 by moonlight, all appeared cold, wild, and stupendous, and 
a Pagan might aptly imagine “the place a fit abode tor demons.—W’< did 
not see even bears, or ‘ausk deer, or eagles, or any | living creature, except 
“some small birds, 
‘To form an idea of the i imposing appearance of a snowy peak, as seer 
here under an angle of. elevation of nearly 33, and when its distance is not 
quite 3 miles, and yet its height i is 8052 feet above’ the station, one should 
reflect, that if even when viewed from the plains of Hindustan, at angles 
of elevation of one, and one anda half degrees, these peaks, towering 
over at intermediate ranges of mountains, inspire the mind with ideas 
of their erandeur, even at so great a distance; how much more must 
they do so, when their whole bulk, cased in snow from the base to the 
summit, at once fills the eye,—It falls to the lot. of few to contemplate 
' so magnificent an object, as a snow clad peak rising to the height of 
