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Excerpt from The Scientific Study of Scenery <p>Monch terminated, as it seemed, on one side by a precipice of almost unimaginable height on the other, Sloping away for leagues in one field of lustrous ice, clear and fair and blue, ashing here and there into silver under the morning sun. For a moment I received a sensation of as much sublimity as any natural object could possibly excite the next moment, I saw that my unknown Alp was the glass roof of one of the workshops of the town rising above its nearer houses and rendered aerial and indistinct by some pure blue wood smoke which rose from intervening chimneys. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.