Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-08-26

tair. they would have appeared as fixed points.
How improved in those attitudes, would be
the aids ishich the telescope gives TO vision,
indeed the clearnesS OF tae air was such. AS led
me to think that JnpiteI's satellites might he
distinguished by the naked cy e aud had he
not heen in the neighborhood OF the moon, |
might possibly have succeeded. He continued
distinctly visible for several honrS after the
sun was risen. and did not wholly disappear un-
Ill almost eight"
with the Inornin. dawn the company pro-
ceetcd or their expedition; aud the follow
ing passage will convey very direct idea OF
the dangers and horrors 10 which this tourney
iseNposei. "Our route WAS across the snow;
hnt the chasms which the ice bcneath had
formed. though less numerous than .husc we
had passed On the preceding day, embarrassed
our ascent; One i'll partic nlar tiad opened 20
much ia the few days that inter, cned between
NJ. ID. SaUSsure's expedition and our own. as
Tor the time TO bar tho hope Of any farther pro-
Srcs'; but at icne III, having wandered with
much anxiety a!ors us bank, found place
which hoped the ladder was sufficiently long
IL cross. The ladder was accordingly laid
down, and was seen TO rest upon the opposite
edge, butit' bearing did not exceed an inch IN
either side We now considered, that shond
we pass the cllasn, and should us onenin"
WHICH had enlarged 50 much il ile course of
a 'cw preceding days, increase in the least de-
gree before the TINE ot ourdesCent me- chance
Of return remained. We also considered that
IL the clouds which 40 often envelope the hill,
thick log, our way back To thls onlv place IN
Which the guif, even in its present state was
pasSabe, was little less than desperate. Yei,
aitora mOmentS pause. the guides consented
tn 20 with rIe, and we crossed the chaSm We
had not proceeded far, when the tnirst, which,
since our arrival in the upper regions OF tito
AIT, had been always troublesome, became al
most iutOierabie. No sooner had drank than
the thirst returned and in few INMATES my
throat became perfectly dry. Again [ had
recourse to the water and again my throat Was
parched. The air itself MAS hi,StN: its eX.
IRENE drynesS had robbed my body fits mos
turc.
After surrounding d succession of similar
dangers, and continuing 20 experience the
same dishearteniu% SENSATIONS, the company at
length arrived At about 80 tathoms below the
body of the Sunmit.-l heir feelings At this mo-
nlent are well depicted in the following pass
age. The pcrniciOuS effects OF the thinness
OF the air were now evident Oh us all Il de-
sire almost irresistible OF sleep came on. My
spirits had left me; sometimes indifferent a.
10 the event, | wished TO lie down: ut others
blamed myself for the expedition; and Tho
Just at the summit, had Thoughts of turning
BACK without accomplishing my purpose. CT
my guides, mauy we're III worse situation; for
exhausted by excessive vomiting, they SEEM
Ell 10 have lost all strength both Of mnid and
body. But shame came at lrugth to our re
lief. drank the last pint OF water that was
left, and found myself amazingly refreshed
my lungs with difficulty performed then of
a
palptatiOn. At last, however, hit with sort
OF apathy which scarcely admitted the sense OF
JOY, we reached The summit of the mountain :,
when SIX OF my guides. and with them my ser
want, threw themselves on their faces, aud
were Immediately asleep"
The following is an account of the effect
produced upon the mind of the spectator by
the view from the vast height 10 which the
travellers had attained. "When the spectator
begins TO look around him from this elevated
height, confused impression of immensely is
the first effect produced upon his mind but
the blue colour, deep almost 10 blackncsS, of
the canopy above him, soon arrests his attenti-
on. tie next surveys the mountains many of
which, from the clearness of the air, are to his
eye within stones throw from him; and even
those of Lombaidy seem to approach his neigh
bourhood; while, on ;he other side, the vale OF
Chamouni, glitieriTg with the sun beams, is 30
The view directly below a.s feet and al ects his
mead with gidduess; on the other hand, ali
OBJECTS OF which the distance is great ana tne
level low, are bId from his eye by the blue va
peur which lntervenes, and through which
could not discern the lake of Geneva, though
al tile height OF eco English feet, which, ac-
cordIng 10 Nj. Saussure, was the level on which
1 stood: even the Mediterranean sea must
have been within the line OF vision. The AIR
was siii, aud the day so remarkably fine, th~t
could not discover in any part of the heavens
The appearance of single cloud"
Presidents Reply 20 the Citizens of JPindsor, Yer
mort.
Fellow CITizyys--I have approached the
state of Vermont with pcculier seushlity. On
a former visit, immediately after the war,
left ii ii wilderness; and now find il blooming
with luNuIiant promise of wealth and laDpi-