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1. par ézemple. For par exemple, in the brogue of Tarascon. In another place Daudet quotes ézagéré for exagéré,

2. la Jungfrau, le Mont-Blanc. The former is one of the most imposing mountains of Switzerland, rising to the height of 13,670 feet in the Bemese Oberland. The latter, the highest summit of the Alps, 1 5,730 feet, stands on the boundary of France and Italy.

3. les Escalades de Whymper. Edward Whymper, author of " Scrambles Among the Alps," and John T)mdall, author of '* Glaciers of the Alps," both Englishmen, and two of the most noted Alpinists of the world. The former has also published "The Ascent of the Matterhom " and " Travels Among the Great Andes of the Equator." He is at présent mountaineering among the Himalayas. Prof. Tyndall, best known perhaps as a scientist, has also published " Hours of Exercise in the Alps." Stéphen d*Arve is the nom de guerre of E. de Catelin, author of Les fastes du Mont-Blanc.

4. cheminées, couloirs, moulins, névés, séracs, moraines, rotures. With the exception that cheminée sometimes appears as chimney, thèse words continually occur, untranslated, in English Alpine literature. A cheminée or couloir is a very narrow, steep gully generally swept by frequently-falling masses of ice and snow. A moulin is a deep pit in a glacier, into which a surface stream passes. Névé is snow hardened by pressure nearly into ice. Séracs are the most jagged portions of a

glacier, lifted and broken by pressure from behind, and falling forward upon the smoother ice-stream below. For moraine^ see Eng. Dict. A roture is a deep crevasse, a Savoyard term from the Italian rottura,