Youth's Magazine,  3rd ser. 5 (1832), 277 and facing.

Comparative View of the Principal Mountains in the World

Anon

Genre:

Miscellaneous; Illustration, Extract

Publications extracted:

Geographical Annual

Relevant illustrations:

eng.

Subjects:

Physical Geography, Piety


    The extracted engraving is accompanied by comments on the difference in size 'between our mountains and those of other parts of the world'. The writer observes that among 'various other lessons the mountains teach us the power and greatness of God, and our own littleness'.


See also:

YM3/5/7/2


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