DOI issue:
September 27, 1856
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September 27, 1856.J
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
127
" At tbe next sfage of the ascent, a catastrophe nearJy occuued.
[Advertisement.] The pass is tolerably wide, perhaps twelve feet at the le.vtl called
. Ail Seconde. Our guide hdd tarried a little, and we were all together,
ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY ASCENT. when a rustaii,g sound was heard, and he was evidently startled. We
„o supposed that we had dh-engaged an cvalancbe, and our alarm was
fi' <tTi ■ i , , , , .. n , „» naturally excessive, when ne whispered ' C'est la Crinoline! In
"The interes which has ate y been exc.ted by narratives of ai)0the/mornent) an'im„ mdS8) 0f extreme whiteness, occupied the
the ascents of places of remarkable elevation as Moat Blanc, Mount h] ■ h f -fa appeared to be descending upon us. The
Ararat, Primrose Hill, and other localities induces me to ha ten to P > PP me ^ crushed
send you an account p an exploit wh'ch has mat been happily achieved » j h~> r },d detecting, as we fancied,
by two young English travellers ^^^^ij^lf^r^^^ a delicate perfume. The awful body went down the very track we had
in accomplishing toe hither o a but u^eard-of feat of sca^ k j thankfulness for our preservation found vent m
most height of one of the summits on chain of houses in excla;ation8 that wU1 occur t0 every piousP nnnd.
the newly-discovered portion of the Rue de Rivol. „ Henceforth the ascent, bec,m/ ^ of exrreme severity) arid the
1 will not, Sir, occupy your valuable space with a dissertation upon |abour lt eilfOICed preVented our making many observations, except
the character of the country in whico this remarkable chain is situate. tuch as woulJ baye no interesr, for tne ordinary reader. Vegetation
I may mention, however, that its existence among the mountain ranges was n,anifest at various points of our route, m the form of gerania, and
of Europe is of comparatively recent date. Ihe smguUr changes which !uchsi aild of a pecuijar odour seldom absent from the fluid in which
have been wrought in this regioa during the reign of the present preens bave been bfjiled_ We perCe5ved no animals, except a wild
Sovereign of Era. ce, are phenomena which have excited the attention; w(uU} d wbose hinder t8 were djvestfed 0f hair, and wiio rushed
of Europe. A valley of great beauty now extends f. om the magnificent; from a recess and barked nvstericaliy, but eluded all attempts to
prairies to which toe natives have given the not inapplicable title of capture or even to kick him_ At one moment a sound as of the fall,
Elysian Fields, up to the point at which civilisation ceases and tbe wild , flQm gt to st of some metallic body, possibly an aerolite, met the
Hotel de Ville frowns upon a waste of space. Una valley is exceed- m6 ir wag fol.owed by lhe continuous plash, as of a small cascade,
ingly fertile, and there are few product which may not be obtained ■ Th,a (,ccurred shoft]v after 0De 0f our party bad made a false step
from it by digging into the portemonnate, while among its wilder pro- backwards arid struck his foot violently against some object wnich
ductions are Zouaves, gnsettes, bonnes gendarmes, gamins, soubrettes teemed to give wav wjfch ,he blow. The guide was inclined to r*fer
mouches, and the luxuriant flora of the demi-monde, recently discovered j the )ricldenr, t0 &Mbam, and if he was right, we met with a rarity ir.
by that eminent naturalist, M. Dumas, iils
" We reached the Valley de Rivoli, afrer a somewhat fatiguin
journey from Boulogne upon the Sea, on Tuesday night, and notwith
the physiology of the district.
" Still struggling upwards, we attained the final plateau, and wita
gaspii.g breath; stood upon tbe summit of the Hotel de Boboche. T
standing our wearmess, we determined at once t0 ascend one of the confess myself unequal to do justice to the prospect, and the fatigue I
highest peaks ot tbe mountain range, from which we had resolved to j experienced seems to h*ve imparted sympathetic lassitude to my pen.
see the sun rise. We were confirmed in this determination by disco- we agreed to dismiss our guide, and t'o bivouac for the night. Ever-
veriog from the inhabitants at the foot of the mountain, that we had no , lasting spring is found in these altitudes, especially in the German
alternative between taking that course and remaining all night on the ! Djattras3 which is acclimatised here. A canopy of snow greeted our
plateau of stone which forms the bottom of the valley. We wer^ eyes> aud we threw ourselves down to rest with an eagerness not
assured that the ascent, though arduous, would be rewarded; that we j entirely vindicated by the result of the saumon aux capres and otDer
should find comforts at the summit; that we should be furnished with | components of our supper. Animal life, in its smallest form, was
a guide, and the expense would become light in proportion to tbe rare-
faction of the atmosphere. The mountain we resolved to scale was
fancifully christened by the inhabitants, from its likeness to one of the
inns of the country, the Hotel St. Boboche; aud *hen we arrived, its
f. ot was bathed in geatle radiance of gas-light, which is one of the
novel phenomena of rhe region.
" We resolved on leaving our baggage at the bottom of the mountain,
though oue of the hai dy children of the place begged to be permirted to
present around us, bur. we ultimately became oblivious of all trouble,
and slept till morning, when, if we aid not see the sun rise, we heard
e daughters getting up, and a precious noise they made about it.
<: 1 am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
" Excelsior Brown.15
Paris, Sept. 2Zrd, 1S56.
[We believe that our cone pondent had penned the above graphic
carry it up with us. We eat a hearty meal, consisnug of articles whicu : sketeh before discovering that we should insert such things only as
appeared most likely to keep us awake for some hours i>d which , advertisements. We wish him joy of the sum he has paid for its
did so), namely, saumon aux capres, cold, a 'mayonnaise, sardines. ! a[Jyearauce_Ed Punch']
fromage de Neutchdtel, a bottle oi Tavel, and some eau de Seltz and ' '___
cognac. We then lit two of the cigars of tha country, which arc I
exceedingly bad (except tbose at one sou each) and summoned our j (1 yw tsjttv
guide. He was a cheerful young fellow, who might have been five and j -fcOUEb AlUJNEi.
twenty, but who play fully called himself a garcon, and was dressed in j we see a coin collector is advertising for sale " Eool's Money." We
he was acquainted wita the region to which he undertook to guide us ? j it is distmgui8hed by any strong verdant tmge, or the effigies of what
and we also asked whether he had a wife or children dependent upon him particular Sir Peter LIurie it carries on the fac; of it; but on the
tor existence? In thejwtow of the district he replied, Pas si bete; principle that a Eool and his Money are soon parted, we should s*y
but tu re-assure us, he stated that ladies had penetrated to the extreme that there must be a tremeildous circulation of this same coin. We
height to which we were going and had sustained no injury oeyond the know well enougri that tb.ere can be n0 scarcity of it, for may not every
loss of not very good tempers, lakwg lights, which he furnished to us of the huudred miUiorjB that j0HN BuLL has been spending in
and said we should need and inscribing our names m a travellers tke Jate ]iussian War be as far as the benefits t0 England are cou-
album over which the police of the district watch with much care, we cerned 8tamped with iudlgnation as downright " Eool's Money ? " In
set out, and speedily arrived at the Mat de la Halle. This presented fact £ is our opinion that John is never so happy as when he is
little worth notice, except traces of the feet of many preceding SOendin«'his " Fool's Alonev1"
travellers. F 5 1'
"Our ascent then began in earnest, and the steps were so exceed-
ingly slippery that we nearly sustained serious falls. But by clinging _„ M . „ ^ . T,. „
to some wood-work placed beside the pathwav, we escaped this Idle Observations. By an Extremely Idle Man.
peril, and soon reached the nlatform called the Entresol, where a view i To receive well is almost as difficult as to give well.
already presented itself. Paris lay before US ill a beautiful map, It is with Lite as with Coffee, he who would drink it pure must not drain it to the
which was coloured with the m0st pleasing variety of hues. Its various dre/-Qol in an elevared ion „ Uke a mau in a blUloon_everybody appears little
divisions COUld Oe distinctly made Out, and the principal objects Ot to him, and he appears little to everybody.
attraction to a Stranger, and even the charges for the Vehicles necessary The Author always the most appreciated is he who is the Author of his fortune.
to reach them, could he discerned without difficulty. But we had a I [More to foiiota in ihe next idle moment.
good deal to accomplish, and without pause we struggled upwards to ,--—
the Premiere Etage. Here the cocoa-nut tree is found, and we derived ! Austria in Naples.
considerable assistance, in climbing, from its fiores, which spread
over the ground, and afforded U3 a pleasant foothold. Looking down Baron Hubnek, the Austrian Ambassador, arrives at Naples; and
througn a gap, we discovered, at the back of the mountaiu, an abyss, immediately the political trials are ordered to recommence. The
of a quadrangular form, at the bottom of which we could see a faint Neapolitan hangman was quite ready ; nevertheless, it was thought as
glimmer of light, and curious sounds ascended, to which my companion we^ t0 waifc f°r ma Viennese assistant,
and myself were inclined to assign Neptunian rather than volcanic -
origin. They reminded us of water escaping from the waste-pipe of a America in a bad way.—Poor America ! Suffering from a Black
cistern. Fever, and whli Kansas in her inside !
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
127
" At tbe next sfage of the ascent, a catastrophe nearJy occuued.
[Advertisement.] The pass is tolerably wide, perhaps twelve feet at the le.vtl called
. Ail Seconde. Our guide hdd tarried a little, and we were all together,
ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY ASCENT. when a rustaii,g sound was heard, and he was evidently startled. We
„o supposed that we had dh-engaged an cvalancbe, and our alarm was
fi' <tTi ■ i , , , , .. n , „» naturally excessive, when ne whispered ' C'est la Crinoline! In
"The interes which has ate y been exc.ted by narratives of ai)0the/mornent) an'im„ mdS8) 0f extreme whiteness, occupied the
the ascents of places of remarkable elevation as Moat Blanc, Mount h] ■ h f -fa appeared to be descending upon us. The
Ararat, Primrose Hill, and other localities induces me to ha ten to P > PP me ^ crushed
send you an account p an exploit wh'ch has mat been happily achieved » j h~> r },d detecting, as we fancied,
by two young English travellers ^^^^ij^lf^r^^^ a delicate perfume. The awful body went down the very track we had
in accomplishing toe hither o a but u^eard-of feat of sca^ k j thankfulness for our preservation found vent m
most height of one of the summits on chain of houses in excla;ation8 that wU1 occur t0 every piousP nnnd.
the newly-discovered portion of the Rue de Rivol. „ Henceforth the ascent, bec,m/ ^ of exrreme severity) arid the
1 will not, Sir, occupy your valuable space with a dissertation upon |abour lt eilfOICed preVented our making many observations, except
the character of the country in whico this remarkable chain is situate. tuch as woulJ baye no interesr, for tne ordinary reader. Vegetation
I may mention, however, that its existence among the mountain ranges was n,anifest at various points of our route, m the form of gerania, and
of Europe is of comparatively recent date. Ihe smguUr changes which !uchsi aild of a pecuijar odour seldom absent from the fluid in which
have been wrought in this regioa during the reign of the present preens bave been bfjiled_ We perCe5ved no animals, except a wild
Sovereign of Era. ce, are phenomena which have excited the attention; w(uU} d wbose hinder t8 were djvestfed 0f hair, and wiio rushed
of Europe. A valley of great beauty now extends f. om the magnificent; from a recess and barked nvstericaliy, but eluded all attempts to
prairies to which toe natives have given the not inapplicable title of capture or even to kick him_ At one moment a sound as of the fall,
Elysian Fields, up to the point at which civilisation ceases and tbe wild , flQm gt to st of some metallic body, possibly an aerolite, met the
Hotel de Ville frowns upon a waste of space. Una valley is exceed- m6 ir wag fol.owed by lhe continuous plash, as of a small cascade,
ingly fertile, and there are few product which may not be obtained ■ Th,a (,ccurred shoft]v after 0De 0f our party bad made a false step
from it by digging into the portemonnate, while among its wilder pro- backwards arid struck his foot violently against some object wnich
ductions are Zouaves, gnsettes, bonnes gendarmes, gamins, soubrettes teemed to give wav wjfch ,he blow. The guide was inclined to r*fer
mouches, and the luxuriant flora of the demi-monde, recently discovered j the )ricldenr, t0 &Mbam, and if he was right, we met with a rarity ir.
by that eminent naturalist, M. Dumas, iils
" We reached the Valley de Rivoli, afrer a somewhat fatiguin
journey from Boulogne upon the Sea, on Tuesday night, and notwith
the physiology of the district.
" Still struggling upwards, we attained the final plateau, and wita
gaspii.g breath; stood upon tbe summit of the Hotel de Boboche. T
standing our wearmess, we determined at once t0 ascend one of the confess myself unequal to do justice to the prospect, and the fatigue I
highest peaks ot tbe mountain range, from which we had resolved to j experienced seems to h*ve imparted sympathetic lassitude to my pen.
see the sun rise. We were confirmed in this determination by disco- we agreed to dismiss our guide, and t'o bivouac for the night. Ever-
veriog from the inhabitants at the foot of the mountain, that we had no , lasting spring is found in these altitudes, especially in the German
alternative between taking that course and remaining all night on the ! Djattras3 which is acclimatised here. A canopy of snow greeted our
plateau of stone which forms the bottom of the valley. We wer^ eyes> aud we threw ourselves down to rest with an eagerness not
assured that the ascent, though arduous, would be rewarded; that we j entirely vindicated by the result of the saumon aux capres and otDer
should find comforts at the summit; that we should be furnished with | components of our supper. Animal life, in its smallest form, was
a guide, and the expense would become light in proportion to tbe rare-
faction of the atmosphere. The mountain we resolved to scale was
fancifully christened by the inhabitants, from its likeness to one of the
inns of the country, the Hotel St. Boboche; aud *hen we arrived, its
f. ot was bathed in geatle radiance of gas-light, which is one of the
novel phenomena of rhe region.
" We resolved on leaving our baggage at the bottom of the mountain,
though oue of the hai dy children of the place begged to be permirted to
present around us, bur. we ultimately became oblivious of all trouble,
and slept till morning, when, if we aid not see the sun rise, we heard
e daughters getting up, and a precious noise they made about it.
<: 1 am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
" Excelsior Brown.15
Paris, Sept. 2Zrd, 1S56.
[We believe that our cone pondent had penned the above graphic
carry it up with us. We eat a hearty meal, consisnug of articles whicu : sketeh before discovering that we should insert such things only as
appeared most likely to keep us awake for some hours i>d which , advertisements. We wish him joy of the sum he has paid for its
did so), namely, saumon aux capres, cold, a 'mayonnaise, sardines. ! a[Jyearauce_Ed Punch']
fromage de Neutchdtel, a bottle oi Tavel, and some eau de Seltz and ' '___
cognac. We then lit two of the cigars of tha country, which arc I
exceedingly bad (except tbose at one sou each) and summoned our j (1 yw tsjttv
guide. He was a cheerful young fellow, who might have been five and j -fcOUEb AlUJNEi.
twenty, but who play fully called himself a garcon, and was dressed in j we see a coin collector is advertising for sale " Eool's Money." We
he was acquainted wita the region to which he undertook to guide us ? j it is distmgui8hed by any strong verdant tmge, or the effigies of what
and we also asked whether he had a wife or children dependent upon him particular Sir Peter LIurie it carries on the fac; of it; but on the
tor existence? In thejwtow of the district he replied, Pas si bete; principle that a Eool and his Money are soon parted, we should s*y
but tu re-assure us, he stated that ladies had penetrated to the extreme that there must be a tremeildous circulation of this same coin. We
height to which we were going and had sustained no injury oeyond the know well enougri that tb.ere can be n0 scarcity of it, for may not every
loss of not very good tempers, lakwg lights, which he furnished to us of the huudred miUiorjB that j0HN BuLL has been spending in
and said we should need and inscribing our names m a travellers tke Jate ]iussian War be as far as the benefits t0 England are cou-
album over which the police of the district watch with much care, we cerned 8tamped with iudlgnation as downright " Eool's Money ? " In
set out, and speedily arrived at the Mat de la Halle. This presented fact £ is our opinion that John is never so happy as when he is
little worth notice, except traces of the feet of many preceding SOendin«'his " Fool's Alonev1"
travellers. F 5 1'
"Our ascent then began in earnest, and the steps were so exceed-
ingly slippery that we nearly sustained serious falls. But by clinging _„ M . „ ^ . T,. „
to some wood-work placed beside the pathwav, we escaped this Idle Observations. By an Extremely Idle Man.
peril, and soon reached the nlatform called the Entresol, where a view i To receive well is almost as difficult as to give well.
already presented itself. Paris lay before US ill a beautiful map, It is with Lite as with Coffee, he who would drink it pure must not drain it to the
which was coloured with the m0st pleasing variety of hues. Its various dre/-Qol in an elevared ion „ Uke a mau in a blUloon_everybody appears little
divisions COUld Oe distinctly made Out, and the principal objects Ot to him, and he appears little to everybody.
attraction to a Stranger, and even the charges for the Vehicles necessary The Author always the most appreciated is he who is the Author of his fortune.
to reach them, could he discerned without difficulty. But we had a I [More to foiiota in ihe next idle moment.
good deal to accomplish, and without pause we struggled upwards to ,--—
the Premiere Etage. Here the cocoa-nut tree is found, and we derived ! Austria in Naples.
considerable assistance, in climbing, from its fiores, which spread
over the ground, and afforded U3 a pleasant foothold. Looking down Baron Hubnek, the Austrian Ambassador, arrives at Naples; and
througn a gap, we discovered, at the back of the mountaiu, an abyss, immediately the political trials are ordered to recommence. The
of a quadrangular form, at the bottom of which we could see a faint Neapolitan hangman was quite ready ; nevertheless, it was thought as
glimmer of light, and curious sounds ascended, to which my companion we^ t0 waifc f°r ma Viennese assistant,
and myself were inclined to assign Neptunian rather than volcanic -
origin. They reminded us of water escaping from the waste-pipe of a America in a bad way.—Poor America ! Suffering from a Black
cistern. Fever, and whli Kansas in her inside !