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Excerpt from A Relation of a Journey to the Glaciers in the Dutchy of Savoy: Translated From the French
Tion. To this unequal cultivation of our mental powers, it is to be attri buted, that men of ta/ze are apt to look upon the fearch of Trutb, as damping all the fire of Genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.