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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Narrative of a Journey to the Summit of Mont Blanc, by William Howard This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Narrative of a Journey to the Summit of Mont Blanc Author: William Howard Release Date: June 15, 2010 [EBook #32823] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MONT BLANC *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE SUMMIT OF MONT BLANC. [Illustration: _Passing a crevice in the_ Glacier _of_ Boissons] NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE Summit of Mont Blanc, MADE IN JULY, 1819. _BY WM. HOWARD, M. D._ "Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crown'd him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow." BALTIMORE: PUBLISHED BY FIELDING LUCAS, JR. J. Robinson, printer. 1821. The account of the following journey was written a few days after its execution, while the author was confined to his chamber by the inconveniences he had suffered, and it was then penned for the gratification of his immediate friends, and without any view to publication. The partiality of friends, however, having permitted it, during his absence, to appear in the Analectic Magazine, for May 1820, it excited more attention than he could have anticipated, which has induced the author to correct the errors arising from haste and other sources, and to republish it in the present form. _Baltimore, April, 1821._ NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE SUMMIT OF MONT BLANC. ----------------- "Above me are the Alps The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pin
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