1 He soon reached the summit, and disappeared.
2 I discovered more distinctly the black sides of Jura, and the bright summit of Mont Blanc.
3 During this short voyage I saw the lightning playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures.
4 The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains, whose aerial summits hung over its recesses.
5 After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
6 The rain was pouring in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains, so that I even saw not the faces of those mighty friends.
7 I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.
8 Once, after the poor animals that conveyed me had with incredible toil gained the summit of a sloping ice mountain, and one, sinking under his fatigue, died, I viewed the expanse before me with anguish, when suddenly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain.
9 The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.
10 I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.