ABSTRACT
ABOUT fifty years ago, two English tourists discovered the valley of Chamonix, according to an inscription carved on a rock standing on the approach to the glacier, Mer de Glace.
The claim is rather a tall one, if we consider the geographical position of this valley, but it is a fair one to a certain extent if these two tourists, whose names I can't remember, were the first to bring to the attention of poets and painters those romantic places, where Byron dreamed of his wonderful and dramatic poem, Manfred.
