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Title: Greatest wonders of the world
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders Landscapes
Publisher: New York, The Christian Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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lopes of theAiguille Verte. It is in the middle of the Talifre where lies that oasis ofthe glaciers that is called the Jardin^ a kind of basket ofAlpine flowers, which find there a pinch of vegetable earth,a few rays of sunshine, and a girdle of stones that isolatethem from the neighbouring ice; but to climb to the Jar-din is a long, fatiguing and even dangerous excursion, neces-sitating a nights sleep at the chalet of Montanvert. We resumed our journey not without having gathered sev-eral bunches of rhododendrons of the freshest green andbrightest rose, that opened in the liberty and solitude of themountains by means of the pure Alpine breeze. You de-scend by the same route more rapidly than you ascended. The mules stepped gaily by the side of their leaders, whocarried the sticks, canes and umbrellas, which had now be-come useless. We traversed the forest of pines piercedhere and there by the torrents of stones of the avalanches ;we gained the plain and were soon at Chamouni to go to
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IN THE ALPS 211 the source of the Arveiron, which is found at the base ofthe Glacier des Bois, the name that is assumed by the Aferde Glace on arriving in the valley. This is an excursion that you can make in a carriage.You follow the bottom of the valley, cross the Arve at thehamlet of Praz, and after having passed the Hameau desBois^ where you must alight, you arrive, winding amongmasses of rocks in disorder an(( pcols of water across whichlogs are placed, at the wall of the glacier, which reveals it-self by its slit and tortured edges, full of cavities and gasheswhere the blue-green hatchings colour the transparentwhiteness of the mass. The white teeth of the glacier stand out clearly againstthe sombre green of the forests of Bochard and Montanvertand are majestically dominated by the Aiguille du Dru^which shoots its granite obelisk three thousand nine hundredand six metres into the depths of the sky, and the foregroundis formed by the most prodigious confusion of stones, rocksand

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