edgecumb

Updated: May 6, 2025

To me, just arrived from Ungava, the beauties of the scene were undoubtedly heightened by the contrast; and one short visit to Mount Edgecumb effaced from my mind the dreary prospect of bleak rocks, snow banks, and icebergs, with which it had been so long and so sadly familiar, and inspired it with a rapture and delight to which it had long been a stranger.

John McLean - Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory : Volume II.

What spot in the world, in fact, can present such varied charms, as the summit of Mount Edgecumb? where the most refined taste, aided by the amplest means, has been employed for a thousand years in beautifying the glorious landscape.

John McLean - Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory : Volume II.

Edgecumb Staley, in the "Guilds of Florence," speaks of the "pewter fattened Perseus:" this is worthy of Carlyle. Early Britons cast statues in brass. Speed tells of King Cadwollo, who died in 677, being buried "at St.

Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison - Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages: A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance