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- Title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880
- Author : Various Authors
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Antiques & Collectibles,Books,Lifestyle & Home,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1449 KB
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This is a Magazine which mainly discusses the topics of literature and Science. Those adventurous gentlemen who derive exhilaration from peril, and extract febrifuge for the high pressure of a too exuberant constitution from the difficulties of the Alps, cannot find such peaks as the Aiguille Verte and the Matterhorn, with their friable and precipitous cliffs, among the Rocky Mountains. The geological processes have been gentler in evolving the latter than the former, and in the proper season summits not less elevated nor less splendid or comprehensive than that of the Matterhorn, upon which so many lives have been defiantly wasted, may be attained without any great degree of danger or fatigue. All but the apex may often be reached in the saddle. The bergschrund with its fragile lip of ice, the crevasse with its treacherous bridges, and the avalanche which an ill-timed footstep starts with overwhelming havoc, do not threaten the explorer of the Western mountains; and ordinarily he passes from height to height--from the base with its wreaths of evergreens to the zone where vegetation is limited to the gnarled dwarfpine, from the foot-hills to the basin of the crisp alpine lake far above the life-limits without once having to scale a cliff, supposing, of course, that he has chosen the best path.
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