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" In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by the most severe weather, even after days of cloudless beauty, when the glaciers glitter in the sunshine, and the pink flowers of the rhododendron appear as if they were never to be sullied by the tempest.... "
The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ... - Page 312
1838
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The London Magazine

1829 - 660 pages
...varieties most distinguished for intelligence and fidelity. of the Alps, between Switzerland and Savoy. In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by...suddenly comes on ; the roads are rendered impassable by drifts of snow ; the avalanches, which are huge loosened masses of snow or ice, are swept into the...
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The Children's friend [ed.] by W.C. Wilson [and others]., Volume 7

William Carus Wilson - 1830
...by that name, near one of the most dangerous passages of the Alps, between Switzerland and Savoy. In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by the most severe weather, evsn after days of cloudless beauty, when the glaciers glitter in the sunshine, an:! the pink flowers...
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The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects..

James Rennie - Elephants - 1829 - 440 pages
...by that name, near one of the most dangerous passages of the Alps, between Switzerland and Savoy. In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by...suddenly comes on ; the roads are rendered impassable by drifts of snow; the avalanches, which are huge loosened masses of snow or ice, are swept into the vallies,...
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The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects..

James Rennie - Elephants - 1829 - 438 pages
...by that name, near one of the most dangerous passages of the Alps, between Switzerland and Savoy. In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by...the rhododendron appear as if they were never to be sulh'ed by the tempest. But a storm suddenly comes on ; the roads are rendered impassable by drifts...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 3

1829 - 476 pages
...even after days of cloudless beauty, when the glaciers glitter in the sunshine, and the pink and the flowers of the rhododendron appear as if they were...suddenly comes on, the roads are rendered impassable by drifts of snow ; the avalanches, which are huge loosened masses of snow or ice, are swept into the...
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The Extractor; or Universal repertorium of literature, science ..., Volume 2

1829 - 576 pages
...regions the traveller is often overtaken hy the most severe weather, even after days of cloudless heauty, when the glaciers glitter in the sunshine, and the...of the rhododendron appear as if they were never to he sullied hy the tempest. But a storm suddenly comes on ; the roads arc rendered impassahle hy drifts...
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A series of lessons, in prose and verse, progessively arranged [ed.] by J.M ...

James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...by that name, near one of the most dangerous passages of the Alps, between Switzerland and Savoy. In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by...suddenly comes on ; the roads are rendered impassable by drifts of snow ; the avalanches, which are huge loosened masses of snow or ice, are swept into the...
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Supplement to the Connecticut Courant: Containing Tales, Travels ..., Volume 3

1832 - 548 pages
...that name, near one of the most dangei nut passages of the Alps, between Switzer land uud Savoy. In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by the most severe weather, even after days ol cloudless beauty when the glaciers glitter in the sunshine, am the pink flowers of the rhododendron...
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The Monthly Repository, and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 2

1832 - 858 pages
...dangerous passages of the Alps, between Switzerland and Savoy. In thcsn regions the traveller B oftea overtaken by the most severe weather, even after days of cloudless beauty, when the glaciers glittei in the sunshine, and the pink flowers of the rhododendron appear as if they were never to be...
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Tales of Animals: Comprising Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animals - 1837 - 344 pages
...by that name, near one of the most dangerous passages of the Alps, between Switzerland and Savoy. In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by...suddenly comes on ; the roads are rendered impassable by drifts of snow : the avalanches, which are huge loosened masses of snow or ice, are swept into the...
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