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VALLON DES ETANgONS.

therefore arrive at the somewhat amazing conclusion, that uponthis, one of the steepest passes in the Alps, tho mean of allthe angles upon the ascent could not have been greater than11° or 12’. Of course, in some places, the angles were much

THE VALLON DES ETANQONS (LOOKING TOWARDS LA BERARDE).*

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steeper, and in others less, hut the mean of the whole could nothave passed the angle above indicated.

We did not trouble ourselves much with these matters whenwe sat on the top of the Breche. Our day’s work was as goodas over (for we knew from Messrs. Mathews and Bonney thatthere was no difficulty upon the other side), and we abandonedourselves to ease and luxury ; wondering, alternately, as we gazedupon the Bateau and the Ecrins, how the one mountain could

* The drawing was inadvertently made the right way on the wood, and the viewis now reversed in consequence.