Excerpt from Les Myst???res de l'Oc???an Les montagnes attirent de m???me l'habitant des plaines, mais moins fortement. Il peut, avec quelques efforts, se les repr???senter, en s'aidant des peintures qu'il a vues, des descriptions qu'il a trouv???es dans les livres. Certes, lorsque apr???s cela il lui est donn??? de contempler de pr???s ces gigantesques monuments des anciennes convulsions du globe; lorsqu'il voit, sur les assises qui n'en sont que les premiers degr???s, se dresser des croupes ???normes aux flancs ...
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Excerpt from Les Myst???res de l'Oc???an Les montagnes attirent de m???me l'habitant des plaines, mais moins fortement. Il peut, avec quelques efforts, se les repr???senter, en s'aidant des peintures qu'il a vues, des descriptions qu'il a trouv???es dans les livres. Certes, lorsque apr???s cela il lui est donn??? de contempler de pr???s ces gigantesques monuments des anciennes convulsions du globe; lorsqu'il voit, sur les assises qui n'en sont que les premiers degr???s, se dresser des croupes ???normes aux flancs desquelles les vastes for???ts n'apparaissent que comme des lits de mousse, et que surmontent des entassements de roches dont les sommets semblent percer la vo???te c???leste, il ne leur trouve qu'une m???diocre ressem blance avec les pauvres tableaux qu'il s'en ???tait faits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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