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Volume 2

Volume Two
Chapter II

spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood
Ibeside
the sources of the Arveiron, which take their

rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down
from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.
The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the
icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered
pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of
this glorious presence-chamber of imperial nature was
broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some
vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or
the cracking, reverberated along the mountains, of the
accumulated ice, which, through the silent working
of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn,
as if it had been but a plaything in their hands. These
sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest

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