The Tour Of Mont Blanc And Of Monte Rosa Primary Source Edition PDF Download

Excerpt from Tour of Mont Blanc and of Monte Rosa: Being a Personal Narrative, Abridged From the Author's "Travels in the Alps of Savoy," &C The glacier therefore moves progressively, or, if the reader pleases, it flows. The flood of water of the arrowy Rhone passes so swiftly, that the passenger almost giddily follows with his eye the bubbles which mark its flight-the lava stream must be watched for some seconds or minutes, perhaps hours, to mark its progress - the stately march of the glacier is yet a stage more slow; months and even years are but the units of division of its dial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.