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Title: Mountain adventures in various parts of the world
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Headley, Joel Tyler, 1813-1897
Subjects: Mountaineering
Publisher: New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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masses, boldlymodelled, present smooth, yet striking contours,which no strange accident has caused to pass thelimits of the beautiful. All rise and fall in just pro-portions. Nothing spoils the harmony of a designboth severe and bold ; and the color, too, so trans-parent and pure,—it is light grey a little warmedwith pink,—suits equally the light or shade, andsoftens the contrast between them. This color iscontinued up to the very azure of the sky. There were very few fallen masses, and especiallyrecent ones. Vegetation nourishes up to the veryfoot of the rocky ridges. It has even, here andthere, taken possession of some old rocks. A littleriver with grassy banks flows peacefully over astony bed, and afterwards, further on, it becomes atorrent. There, the service-tree overshadows Solo-mons seal, which is rare in our mountains, though ithere acquires uncommon dimensions. Over the de-clivities of the lateral mountains may be seen thered pine which here defies the axe. All the blocks
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MONT PERDU. MONT PERDU. 165 are adorned with the light plumy bunches of thesuperb long-leaved saxifrage. In uncultivatedground there is sometimes found the carline of thePyrenees, and sometimes the beautiful panicautdescribed by Gouin, and which here changes some-times trom amethyst to crimson. On the turfthere are those two carlines particularly mentionedby Allioni and Yillars, the second of which, de-scribed under the name of acanthus-leaved carline,may be known by the golden color of its calyxcrown. There can be nothing more brilliant or moresjDlendid than a piece of turf bedizened with thosetwo carlines. We pressed on, and at length we all sat down be-fore these mountain walls of Estaube, which seemedto rise higher as we advanced towards them. Al-ready we could see that fine glaciers lay under thefields of snow which in some parts diversified thelandscape. At last, after four hours march wefound ourselves just under the intermediate glacier ;and we stopped to gaze on those walls w

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