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Horace Benedict de Saussure : Voyages dans les Alpes

Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junction with what Saussure calls the 'poudingues de Valorsins'. Such a scramble as I've had after them today!"

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

Horace Benedict Saussure : Voyage dans les Alpes

'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than powerful or philosophical narrative which Horace Benedict Saussure gives of his journeys in the Alps. I am in the third quarto-'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

Horace Benedict Saussure : Voyages dans les Alpes

'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject... On the same authority [a small Genevese], I inform you that Horace Benedict Saussure (whose beautiful voyages I have not yet finished) died 20 years ago; but Theodore, his son, is still living.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

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