VISIT OF MESSES. POCOCKE AND WINDHAM. 49

The letter was written to Mr. Arland, a celebratedpainter at Geneva, and the author was no less a personthan Mr. Windham himself. I have great pleasurein reproducing, entire, this curious document. Theabsence of any false colouring or exaggeration, whichmight have been excusable in such circumstances,is remarkable.

Sir,

^^CCORDING to your Defire I fend you an Account o!

our Journey to the Glacieres. I lhall give it you inthe plained: Manner, without endeavouring to embellifh it byany florid Deferiptions, although the Beauty and Variety ofthe Situations and Prolpedls that we obferved in this unfre-quented Part of the World, would well deferve to be defcribedby one, who, like you, join to fo great a Skill in Painting lolively and Poetical an Imagination ; but thefe not being myTalents, I will, as I faid before, confine myfelf to the givingyou a faithful Relation of the Incidents of our Journey, andacquainting you with the Obfervations we made. I lhall adda few Hints, which may be ufeful to fuch as lhall hereafterhave the fame Curiofity that we had, and who may perhapshave Advantages and Conveniences which we had not tomake more accurate Obfervations. It is really Pity that fogreat a Curiofity, and which lies fo near you, lhould be folittle known; for though Scheuchzer, in his Iter Alpinum,defcribes the Glacieres that are in the Canton of Berne , yetthey feem to me by his Defcription to be very different fromthofe in Savoy.

1 had long had a great Defire to make this Excurfion, but

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