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Proceedings of Boyal Society of Edinburgh. [sess. 
Notes regarding, and Model of, Mass of Manufactured 
Iron, bearing date 1807, found beside Glacier de la 
Plaine Morte, Rhone Valley. By James Milne, Milton 
House Works. 
(Read December 2, 1895.) 
Mr President and Gentlemen, — During the past summer I 
visited for two or three weeks a new summer and winter Alpine 
resort, called Hotel du Parc, built by M. Zufferey and a partner 
near the village of Montana, on the north side of the Rhone 
valley, above Sierre, which is situated on a curious park-like 
plateau, with a number of lake-like reservoirs and quantities of 
timber, at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 feet. 
While enjoying to the full the beautiful walks and views and 
the superabundance of flowers, many of which are now getting 
comparatively scarce if not extinct in the older resorts, I pushed 
my way one day up to the Glacier de la Plaine Morte by a valley 
several miles to the eastward of the hotel. It is a stiff walk of 
about four hours from the hotel to the Glacier, first through thick 
pine woods and steep pasture, and latterly, as you penetrate the 
side valley, along very steep slides of debris composed of clayey 
slate and bottoms filled with very rough stones that have been 
