Chambers' Home Book, or Pocket Miscellany
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217808200
Paperback|9780217808200
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: consider as at the lowest and most hapless condition of any in Great Britain or its adjacent islands; yet the moralist will be delighted to discover, that with all the disadvantages of solitude and desertion, there is even a large amount of actual happiness, comfort, and virtue, in this remote and limited territory. ASCENT OF MONT BLANC. Blanc, as is generally known, is the highest peak of the Alps, and the loftiest ground in Europe, being 15,666 feet above the level of the sea. It is situated in the duchy of Savoy, now a part of the kingdom of Sardinia, in a range of mountains between Geneva and Turin, andrises immediately above the narrow valley of Chamonix, from which place alone is the ascent to the summit ever made. Though Chimborazo is between 6000 and 7000 feet higher than Mont Blanc, it only rises 11,600 feet above the neighboring valley of Quito: in this respect Mont Blanc may be considered as a more remarkable mountain, as it rises 12,300 feet above the valley of Chamonix, the whole of which vast height can be scanned at once from the opposite eminences. For 7000 feet below the top Mont Blanc is perpetually covered with ice and snow. The distance from the bottom to the top, by the shortest route which can be pursued, is considered by the guides as eighteen leagues, or fifty-four miles. Speaking with precision, Mont Blanc is only the most eminent of a range of peaks springing from a vast extent of eminent ground on the south side of the valley of Chamonix. When the traveller enters the valley on the opposite side at an eminence called the Col de Balme, this range, coming at once into view, oppresses his imagination with a vastness unexpected even in that land of Alpine grandeur. While the vale below smiles with the most luxuriant vegetation, the sides of the hill...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217808200 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217808204 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $20.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 272 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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