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ASCENT OF MONT BLANC.

• [lrmo the liihfietheqism Unfre►nl/e of September 30

S'nee the unfortunate ascent in which three
guides of Chansons)), perished, on the 18th Of
August. 1810, nut liar from the summit of Mout
Blanc, 'wing precipir•ted and buried in • deft by
an avalanche of snow, nobody had attempted this
enterprise, which is •s dangerous as it is useless,
till • young Englishman PIG F. Chit°ld), came
from London to Chymous'', with the firm mobi-
lity's or attempting it. After having passed the
first half of August at the foot of the formidable
mountain, in expectation of favourable writhe,. he
executed she ascent at length on the 19th of Au-
gur, with a success, and above all • quickness. of
which none of the nine preceding 'green's rtrursi ass
example. Ile has given some particulars of his
expedition in • letter to his broker, who has had
the politesuss to communicate it to us.

" Chimneny Anguit t 7, ISM

N SIR—You have probably beard of the success of my
ascent of WO Blanc, of whirls I will communicate to you
some particulars. I left Chainutray, where I remained len
days in expert•t ton of swilled weather, on Souday, the
al haMpalf len pm. with six chosen guides, one of whom
was provided with a lantern. We ascender', as is usually
done, by the mountain De la Cote, and attained tire summit
of it •t half-past three iu she morning. After • short bait
we entered as four o'clock on the Glacier; and haying
massed it without accident, reached, at half-pass seven, the
routs call. d •the Grauds Mulcts, where precediog travellers
have generally mate aerangemenie for passing the Dight.
My plan was d,ffereitt : I desired to reach the summit tie
same day. and to remain there durius the night, in order so
seethe day-break on she followine morning. We therefore
cautioned our search, the most difficult part of which w's
in she ueighbourhood of these same rock., where we had
to climb obliqurly tip • very strap slope of ice, incliued
about 45 degrees, in wl.irh we were uhlsgerl to cot swirl) a
hatchet a somber of steps, the missing of otie of which would
have been ceramist death, for this slopo terminated at an
enormous cleft : thin passage was still worse when we came
doer.. again. We quitted she Grinds Mulcts at sine o'clock,
and reached at two the Grand Plateau sitar the Dome du
Gout&. We were in the region of those of snow, which
are formed into enormous !mall. lopiperion , called remits.
Thence asceolling to the teft, we from time to time proceeded
aluag the edge of the el.f s, one of which was perhaps the
grave of the viciisessof 1820. All the conspanv,except one of the
guides, P. M. Faveret, and myself, were more or less incom-
moded by hie rarefaction of she sir; three of them in parti.
crier, who ascended Moat Blanc fur the firm time, lust their
strength to such a degree, that they considerably delayed our
progress. If it hail out been imprudent to separate, I should
metaialy have attained the summit before night. We arrived
about
beyond the Roches. Rouge, the nearest to the top of all those
that are seen from Chamouny. We bad reached it at half-
past six; the Petit Mulct being higher, and to the left, is
out visible from below. As we bad sot time to reach the
summit before sight, we descended again to the Rocher
Rogue, near which we made a pit in the snow, four feet deep,
See broad, and six burg. We placed at the bottom some
pieces of wood, o which we spread a rather shin slusbt, ou
which we all seven laid down, covered with a light sheet,
which was by ao means sufficiently large for the purpose.
Some puffs of wind, which now and then blew into our faces
some of the light scow drifted from the surface, might bass
been • had omen of the fete that awaited us of the wind had
risen. We slept, however, about four hours. We rould not
oh the thermometer for wsut of light; but the night
was cold tuough to produce icicles in a bottle of hermitage
wise,aod thoroughly to freeze some lemons among our pros
visions. The right foot of one of my guides (David Comet)
was frozen, as were she extremities of my fingers and toes ;
but this had no bad consequences, as the meal teinedy (rub.
brag them with mow) was at hand. We left our cold couch
at boor u'eluel in the morning ; the day was beginning to
break, sod the first rays of dawn gate a silver Huge to the
summit, from which we wire not far distant. In proportion
as the sun approached the hos am, the tint changed, said be-
came entirely golden when he ruse. It made the most stab.
iwg cool/est with the nearly black return of the sky,which
served as • bait ground. Ail the difficulties were now sue-
mutilated : we sunk but little in the atom, and now and then
halted for a short time to take breath; we soon came to the
Petit Mules, winch we had visited the day *before, and it
half-past five we were on she summit. We began by mating
the signals agreed un with our friends iu the plain, who ea-
sily distinanished them. _ . .

.` Thiasuoissiii is nut so confirod ■s it arCTIVI to be at a
distance. It forms a small 03111, Orally horis meal, which is
in the shape of a triangle, the base of which is towards Cha-
tnouny ; one side it towards the Albs Blauchs, and the other
the pillage of Iltuulromme. It look use fuer mauls, to
walk (lulu the apex of the triangle, to the perpeodtcular
drawls, to the base.

" The sky was without clouds ; the sun, which bad does
below our horizon, deluged with light the revue from which
it seemed to issue, and iu the direction of which we could
distinguish nothing; reuy it here else we perceived a vast
somber of summits, some corered with shining Ice, others
mare or less resit and threatening; others again of roundish
forma, aaJ covered will, pasture. Jura bounded the linri.
ttesa is the storth.west ; more to the mirth we saw the lake,
but sot 'Genera. To the south-east thee,' pm-trilled be-
rated the plants of Lombardy, as far as the Appeuoines,
whirl' bounded the horizon in the form of a blue hoe, or of
ibe (brume fog of a winter's morning ; the sun, both at setting
Ike precediag aerating sad at rising is the morning, seemed
more or less elivsloped in this vapour. I had brought DO
instrument with me but a thermometer. At run-set the day
before, Hear the Bucher Rogue, it was at 26 deg. of Fshren.
bell. '.se forgot to observe it when we set out is the more.
lag; but Cools-I, who is used to make observations at great
heights, thinks that the cold, even in wiody weather,seldom
elects's 18 deg. F. (1 .1 3d deg. R. below Zero v.) But on
the summit at a ight o'clui k, at the Grauds lhletslhe day
defore at nom ; and the Growl Plateau the same day at
three; lastly at the Grands Motets the next day (Tuesday,
about three in the afternoon), at all those stations the ther-
mometer, observed by Couto, seta one at four or five feet
(rum the ground, was at 711 deg. (lei R.)
" Some of the guides picked up specimens of the highest
rocks near the summit, which I briag with ate. After slop.
ping three hours on the sumn.i:, where I fell myself very
'Well, except that 1 had lost my appetite since le-swing the
Grande Mulcts, though the guides had preserved theirs, we
set out to descend; it was half-past eight o'clock. At eleven
we came to the Grand Plateau, and st half.past oar to the
Graada Motets. When we wield there, we heard some-
thing
like the rolling of 'bowler, which was nothing but Ik.
row of an enormous avalanche, which was seen
-rum
below,
sod even from the Col de Balme, to cover a port of the
'pace which we 'had crossed its oar descent. A few hours
sooner. sad we should Wore all barn envelops d and de-
stroyed.
" We quitted the Grand. Mulcts at three o'clock, sad at
herpes. three weie beyond the regi tttt of the ice. We got
to the Priory of Chatautioy at half-past Devi a, after 45 hours
abserice.
We heard that two English ladies (Mrs. sod Miss
Campbell) had passed the Cul Fin Gesut two or three hours
before we reached the Petit Mulct, and that while we were
near that rock tiny were dereendiog at Coimayi ur. They
had left Chasnouny un Suoday, and pawed the night at the
foot of the rocks of Taco!. In euusequesice of the mow sure
of their guides, they met with more difficulties thari I did.
They are resolved to attempt, meat year or the following,
the ascent of Must Blanc."

This is probably mistakes, hireasse eves on St. Be,.
■ard, the thermometer i■ wistrr °lieu falls to 13 or 14 dew.
below Zero. But perhaps be meaut the temperature of Gi
below Zrro, as she lowest iu SUMMIT is these elevated et-
gious.-I.ditor of Dibliothrrie Llitiverselk.

The Fame, Rave If, tress Liverpool for Sunderland, was
drives *a shore sio Walla, Island ara Friday, sad it was
tearrd weekd be wrecked.