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THE STORY OF MONT BLANC .

papers in regular order; and in the hope that thevolume may find its way, in the autumn, from ourbustling, smoky, dusty London to my beloved Cha-mouni—that its pages may be chequered by thedancing sunlight coming through the forest leaves ofChede and Servoz, or that it may be read to the musicof the brawling Arve below, and the tinkling of thehundred cattle-bells high up and away in the pasturesof the Breven and Montanvert—I most cheerfullyset about my task.

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