Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ...to this glacier in the following terms: --' A superb glacier of the first class descends on the north from the Adai-Khokh group between the ridges of Bordjoula and of Saourdaour. It is the KhaltschiDon glacier. It is at least 1,500 feet broad, and traverses the forest region for a great distance. Approaching the village of Zenaga, it descends to a level of 6,700 feet, the lowest point known to be reached by any Caucasian glacier.' but we had a good view of the ranges on its right bank. Opposite rose a high and steep mountain-wall; higher up, looking in a south-easterly direction, an odd tower-shaped rock appeared in front of a long curtain of ice, surmounted, on the right, by a tall gracefully-shaped peak, and on the left by a serrated ridge, in which tooth succeeded tooth in the most formidable array. Following with the eye the course of the ice-stream, to the point where it made a sudden plunge into a branch of the valley of the Uruch, we looked over the great waves which marked the commencement of the fall, and saw, beyond and far below them, a tolerably wide valley. Its slopes were wooded with firs, and we could distinguish some cultivated land; the northern horizon was formed by rugged peaks, too low to carry perpetual snow. The summit of one of them bears a striking resemblance to a castle with a tall turret at one of the angles. Our position was much the same with regard to our proposed pass as that of a traveller at the Montanvert intending to cross the Col du Geant. We had ascertained that the great glacier marked in the map existed, and was in reality far larger than it was represented; but we could see nothing of its upper portion, and could only be certain that it poured out of a gap just visible on the right of the great..
