Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1892, Vol. 8
The conjectural altitudes of a region previously untraversed by Europeans were brought down by some thousands of feet, a summary process which involved the disappearance of the eternal snows with which rumour had crested them, and fabulous heights were compelled to descend to modest elevations probably nowhere much exceeding 1 feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
