Monte Rosa, from the North - Mont Blanc, distant 45 Miles, 1854. 'Zumstein Spitze; Hochste Spitze; Nord the authority of M. de Saussure, an altitude of 15,760 English feet is given to Monte summit is very remarkable. It is not compact rock, but consists of a number of huge and irregular seem to be partly mountain limestone, and partly micaceous and quartose schist, interspersed with a large quantity of talc and slate. The cone is a very steep reck, about 400 feet in height: its hollows and crevices being filled with hard and slippery reached the sum
Monte Rosa, from the North - Mont Blanc, distant 45 Miles, 1854. 'Zumstein Spitze; Hochste Spitze; Nord the authority of M. de Saussure, an altitude of 15,760 English feet is given to Monte summit is very remarkable. It is not compact rock, but consists of a number of huge and irregular seem to be partly mountain limestone, and partly micaceous and quartose schist, interspersed with a large quantity of talc and slate. The cone is a very steep reck, about 400 feet in height: its hollows and crevices being filled with hard and slippery reached the summit [and] planted a red flag upon the pole, in addition to Mr. Smyth's shirt, which we left still floating in the breeze'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.
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