The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

Mont Blanc

3 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Chap. XL

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING MOUNTAINS.- (Continued.) "So pleas'd at first the tow'ring mounts we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread…

Mont Blanc, in Savoy

NARRATIVE of a Journey from the village of Chamouni, to the summit of Mont Blanc, undertaken on August 8, 1787; by Colonel Beaufoy. From…

Mont Blanc, in Savoy: Glacier

In less than six hours we arrived at the hut in which we had slept the evening before, and should have proceeded much further down the…

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