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Updated: July 27, 2025
Enter Buzzano. Buz. Did you call? Hen. Yes, the Balme here Buz. What shall I doe with it? Hen. Lay it up safe; 'tis good for a greene wound But mines a blacke one: and d'you heare, sirra, Draw up the bridge, give entrance unto none. Buz. All my fellowes are abroad, sir; there's nobody at home but I. Hen.
How poor and shrunken, beside it, is Italy in its brightest aspect!" He sees "places of terrible grandeur unsurpassable, I should imagine, in the world." Going up the Col de Balme, he finds the wonders "above and beyond one's wildest expectations." He cannot imagine anything in nature "more stupendous or sublime." His impressions are so prodigious that he would rave were he to write about them.
After a little clambering the captain, who was in a very exhausted state, fell through a hidden crevasse, fracturing his skull sixty feet below. The remaining three struggled on throughout the day, and had to pass a second night on the mountain, this time without covering. On the third day they met with a shepherd, who conducted them with difficulty to the little village of Balme.
I have been told, that in Switzerland a traveller was suffocated by rolling down the declivity of the Col de Balme, over the compact turf of the Alps. When we gained the summit of the Piton, we were surprised to find scarcely room enough to seat ourselves conveniently. It was eight in the morning, and we suffered severely from the cold, though the thermometer kept a little above freezing point.
As they rose into the higher grounds, heaps and rude pillars of stone were observed. These were the landmarks which guided travellers through that region when it was clad in its wintry robe of deep snow, and all paths obliterated. At last they stood on the Col de Balme.
SMALL. Take ten Gallons of water, and five quarts of honey, with a little Rosemary, more Sweet-bryar, some Balme, Burnet, Cloves, less Ginger, Limon Peel. Tun it with a little barm; let it remain a week in the barrel with a bag of Elder-flowers; then bottle it. Small.
The chain of the Brevent and the Aiguilles-Rouges betrayed itself. The wind, turning to the north-west, brought into view above the Col de Balme, which shuts in the valley of Chamonix on the north, some light, isolated, fleecy clouds, which I hailed as the heralds of fine weather.
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