Peaks, Passes and Glaciers: A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club (1859)
Ball, John (Ed.) · Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts (London) · leaf 90
CHAP, UT J NOTE, 75 Tought to say that after making the sketch which is here copied, it seemed to me that I had, though very slightly, ex- aggerated the steepness of the slopes on either side of the … central mass of Mont Blanc. It is, however, certain that from the distance at which my sketch is taken, the great superiority of the peak of Mont Blane over his attendant aiguilles is far more apparent than from a nearer station, as may be secn by referring to plate v. vol. ii. of Saussure’s…
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