V ^'"UNTAINS. J7 
silence tl'e majestic ami awful 
‘s only P'l ' ‘'St solitudes — a silence which 
tnass of crranii\^ by the noise of some great 
"tountaiu- a,,d’ tumbling from tiro top of the 
themstlve’s on whirl elevated rocks 
°i'e to be s-'en r , ’ ■ animals, shrubs, no.r verdure, 
coimtiw and rirlw!'’"!^''^- recollection of the fertile 
small a distance which the adjacent vallies at s6 
Sion of adiniraiio^rn?'T \ produce a mixed impres- 
to l>elie%-e that hr i "'hich tempts the spectator 
"orld forgotten bv rhr^* suddenly transported into a 
The Jaciei m . P"5 "f Nature, 
another ioc-mountnli!'” Jr with die vTecks of 
ried many huts, fl^ks^'- nd VP® ^^o, and-bu- 
> nocks, and slrepherds beneath its rains. 
FltO.M TKE EUET. 
'he l>ecul'ari?brip°™ Mont Blanc and of the Alps, 
onght to be noticed ^ v summit of the Buet 
‘'n'pear so vast Bounir, did prospect 
";mdingibraspace<?f ^^hone is seen, 
plains of die Valai’ . leagues through the rich 
'fountains cover with’ -® 'ho river which the 
®hyrr, and those which m’ hko threads of 
gokl. Beyond die rivo,- . j ■ illumines like direads of ' 
the r '"oumaiirof > 'ho ' le'v extends 
he Gnsons, all cove,vd °.p}''h'''orland, bt. Gothard, and 
neignts sink suddenlv ti" *®® ’ "'hUo, on the east, the 
'he globe, to level’ nip “h the loftiest elevations 
like a spot at one t !'? 7"^hed by the sea. Geneva 
a sinuous band di ‘'ho, and the lake itself. 
pfonditarediscovL ’he lields which it waters, 
pnd Burgundy, thg plnh's of Fniuche Comi6 
;*npei'ceptihle gradation P ^''h'®h diminish by almost 
''>* extent of sicUt to P®'® 'he eye has neither power 
P^ciited to its view 3ce the whole of the objects 
wiilch descend ^ the fearful aspect of tlie pre- 
'Veen the country dec '"^hlo, '""hat a contra.st be- 
S''y> and the sublime '"hh all that is fmiling and 
-firing of tfe Alps, their ^omj 
o, above all, die prodigious height 
