332, and Wordsworth's letter to his sister, from Keswill, describing the trip .-- Ed.] [Footnote v: See the account of "Urseren's open vale serene," and the paragraph which follows it in 'Descriptive Sketches', vol.i.pp.

50, 51 .-- Ed.] [Footnote w: See the account of these "abodes of peaceful man," in 'Descriptive Sketches', ll.

208-253 .-- Ed.] [Footnote x: Probably the valley between Martigny and the Col de Balme .-- Ed.] [Footnote y: Wordsworth and Jones crossed from Martigny to Chamouni on the 11th of August.

The "bare ridge," from which they first "beheld unveiled the summit of Mont Blanc," and were disenchanted, was doubtless the Col de Balme.

The first view of the great mountain is not impressive as seen from that point, or indeed from any of the possible routes to Chamouni from the Rhone valley, until the village is almost reached.