Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

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On the Brink of a Terrible Chasm

side, and hauled us up after him; then on hands and knees, towed us across by cut away along a ridge until a point was the legs, ridiculing our apprehensions, gained from which we could jump on to mimicking our awkwardness, declining all help, bidding us only to follow in the sunny valley below, one of those him. He was apparently as much at brave Alpine guides who render mounhome on the icy mountain as he would be tain climbing possible.

ON THE BRINK OF A TERRIBLE CHASM.
ON THE BRINK OF A TERRIBLE CHASM.
tance and displaying the grandeur and of the clouds as a mirror.
tance and displaying the grandeur and of the clouds as a mirror.
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