The book Scenes And Impressions Abroad was written by author Rockwell, Joel Edson, 1816-1882 Here you can read free online of Scenes And Impressions Abroad book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Scenes And Impressions Abroad a good or bad book?
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After an early breakfast, our mules were at the door, and we set off in the saddle with two excellent guides. Crossing the roar- ing river by a substantial bridge, and shortly after the Avernon, by a more primitive structure, we soon began to ascend an almost precipitous mountain by a small mule-pass cut in its side, and which winds up by a zigzag route, across the tracks of avalanches, amid huge and ragged rocks, by the rustic chalets of the moun- taineers, and often on the very verge of tre- ...mendous ravines and precipices that start away from our feet, and almost make the head dizzy with the sight of their fearful depths. After a ride of about three hours we reach an elevation of over five thousand feet, and turning around the angle of a rustic hostelry, our enthusiastic guides shout, " Voila la Mer de Glace ! " and the wondrous scene is before us. This glacier lies 230 IMPRESSIONS ABROAD. in one of the valleys of Mont Blanc, and is fed by the eternal snows upon its summit. It is about twelve miles long by from half a mile to a mile and a half broad, and the ice, broken up into thousands of hummocks, and opening as many fearful chasms, is supposed to be from two to seven hundred feet thick.
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