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Title: Narrative of a Journey to the Summit of Mont Blanc

Author: William Howard

Release Date: June 15, 2010 [EBook #32823]

Language: English

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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