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... Mont Blanc ! ' and ' we were at once made aware of the very great height we had attained by actually seeing the monarch of the Alps and his attendant satellites right over the top of the Breithorn , itself at least 14,000 feet high ...
... Mont Blanc ! ' and ' we were at once made aware of the very great height we had attained by actually seeing the monarch of the Alps and his attendant satellites right over the top of the Breithorn , itself at least 14,000 feet high ...
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... Mont Blanc for a moment . The path here was simply a groove cut into the face of the precipice ; there was a four - foot breadth of solid rock under the traveller , and a four - foot breadth of solid rock just above his head , like the ...
... Mont Blanc for a moment . The path here was simply a groove cut into the face of the precipice ; there was a four - foot breadth of solid rock under the traveller , and a four - foot breadth of solid rock just above his head , like the ...
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... Mont Blanc , and while picking their way over one of the mighty glaciers of that lofty region , roped together , as was proper , a young porter disengaged himself from the line , and started across an ice - bridge which spanned a ...
... Mont Blanc , and while picking their way over one of the mighty glaciers of that lofty region , roped together , as was proper , a young porter disengaged himself from the line , and started across an ice - bridge which spanned a ...
Page 117
... Mont Blanc to the plain of Pied- mont , remained stationary , or nearly so , at its mouth for many centuries , and deposited there enormous masses of débris . The length of this glacier exceeded eighty miles , and it drained a basin ...
... Mont Blanc to the plain of Pied- mont , remained stationary , or nearly so , at its mouth for many centuries , and deposited there enormous masses of débris . The length of this glacier exceeded eighty miles , and it drained a basin ...
Page 118
... Mont Blanc , upon the plain below Ivria , assure us that the glacier which trans- ported them existed for a prodigious length of time . Their present distance from the cliffs from which they were derived is about 420,000 feet , and if ...
... Mont Blanc , upon the plain below Ivria , assure us that the glacier which trans- ported them existed for a prodigious length of time . Their present distance from the cliffs from which they were derived is about 420,000 feet , and if ...
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