Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1845-05-15
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SERGEANT TALFoURD is delighiing the Old
World with his lively descriptions of Euro
pean scenery. His new work. "Vacu,ion
Rambles," is all the go. Among other things
attempted in these Rambles, (Which extend
over ll-'2-'3,) he essayed to reach the top
of Mont Blanc. He failed. But the effort
so full Of peril, and therefore, so full of in
cident--is described with vivid touch and
close reality. He reached within three iun
dred feet of the summit. He looked I'D and
yearned 10 be on the highest peak, bu: increas-
ing weakness on his part, and the exhaus-
ton of his party, compelled him to return
He feels proud, says the Examiner, good
naturedly, that he got SO far--proud shat he
got nearer heaven than lawyer ever got be-
fore, or, we suspect, will ever get again and
may boast that he is the first Queens Ser
geant who ever stood within three hundred
feet OF the topmost height of Mont Blanc"
We select from his description nights BIZ
vouac in the upper region :--.St. Louis Daily
Republican.
"When the first rage of hunger was ap-
! peased, but before the tables were eaten or
removed (Which will not be for some iime}
{ The guides suggested the expediency of ar
ranging our dresses at once for the night and
| Tor The ascent, hv putting on The warm cloth
ing suitable 10 both, and which. being once
done, would enable us to start as soon as we
should be awakened for the upward march
smooth ledge III the next rock served US in
turn Tor dressing room, i'll which my huge
stockings were, by some magic, drawn on :;
and the massive shoes which had been dried
Ill the sun, resumed; and CATERS buttoned
over The trousers IN strange fashion-in oil
which very arduous accomplishments was
assisted by Julien, with delicate deXteriiy
which would have done honor to a French
valet, and mingled kindness, respect, and
command like those blended in the manner
( OF an old family servant to peled Young
master. should have thought the shoes,
well saturated with snow, once removed.
could not have been pu! on over the lremen-
dous stockings bat even this last miracle OF
the toilet was happily accomplished and
was pronounced ready To- lie down for the
night, and to start for the morrow, or rather
at the midnight summons.
$50, after cup of weak brandy and wa
ter, which Julien recommended and shared,
/ WIN my p''iC DtCheu lily way over Tue
PROSTATE bodies ~of two young gentlemen
who were already asleep, and squeezed my
sell into my allotted niche, with my head sup
ported by large comfortable stone, and my
foot pressed against the low fence edsing the
shell-fguriDg myself TO myself as AN efligy
on monument. The position was in no re-
spect unpleasant, except in the confinement
OF the limbs, aud very slight feeling of cold :;
/ md | G,I T.. l.
bic couch it proved. The notion of the
! ledge being terrible place--overhanging or
bordering Grightfui precipice, is entirely err
roneous its height above the snow on the
side it fronts is formidable and the bristlng
irrcgulariiy OF the rock prevents the slighcs,
! sense of dizziness or danger. 1t is far beyond
the reach of all avalanches-whicll are heard
in the stiffness of the night Numbering down
the surrounding precipice, with no more pos
slbil!y OF reaching the listener, than when he
looks on the Jungfrau from the platform oil
/ the Western Alps 1t has been customary
according to the published narrative of the
ascent, TO erect tent here, under which the
travellers sleep; and early in the afternoon
Mr. Bosworih put up an awning against the
rock, supported by poles, under which be
| proposed TO sleep, and to includc us which
seemed 10 justify me in APPLYING TO our 20
siton the words of the fated Richard
"I"rc pitch your tent here in Bosworth field
! Up with my tent here Will | lie tonight
But where tomorrow Wen alPs one for that
! Up with the tent ~
But the experiment did not answer; the ten
was laid aside, having served no purpose bu
assoclatlng passage OF Shakespeare with on
lot; enough in itself TO huinanize the desc
late SHOWS aud lis owner, with that ouie
kindness which marked his demeanor, find
ing that one OF the younger gentlemen need
ed the accommodation of the best ledge alort
than himself, silently resigned it, without tht
theatrical expression Of SIR Philip Sidney
and bivouacked OH the second rock. We lay
therefore, with no meaner covering than tn,