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vapoui-s • 'ms 3 enveloped in thick 
mooting, 
SWITZERLAND, WITH THE GLACIERS. 
Of Aipta iarii p™“i 
^ Thomson. 
bdong^t^th™ account of its white aspect, 
gigantic, and TuL “I 
rising no less than 15 8^9 f mounUin in Europe 
miles, above die level onh ’ more than three 
I-ake of Geneva in its vir' ® feet above the 
Wonderful collectiom „(■ encompassed by those 
two of the prlS^Uf caUed - Glaciers,” 
Triolet. 11, e j.];” '• Inch, are called Mont Dolent and 
^fomecLiry, \ul Mont Blanc, named the 
i'rom that point it , a compressed hemisphere, 
^wave surface of simJ^ S‘‘‘‘mudl7, and presents a kind of 
RTaitiid of ice. Jt •] ' midst of which is a small 
wmch is named the ’ second hemisphere, 
0 another concave surf ^ ; and thence descends 
other names besm‘''’ 1’°''^^’ which, 
ioc^^ ” -Dome tie Gom '*■ the Savoyards, is 
imenordome. ^ ' =t«d may be regarded as the 
^^wit Blanc was nndp\ to reach the summit of 
" Pbysiciau of ChaZn, ’ ^86, by Doctor Paccaid, 
guide, named Balm’ ^ f make the attempt 
discovered the onl searching for crystals, 
°tis an undertakiuiT J P't^^'^‘t;able route by which so ar- 
^upied fifteen horn ascent 
^■msuinces of the >'reatest“rffl descent five, under cir- 
=md Uiat of his“Iutl H flte Doc 
O e, Balnra, being so affected by th« 
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