...suddenly gave way beneath our feet, beginning at the head of the line, and carried us down the slope to my left. I was thrown instantly off my feet, but was...exertions, and partly because the velocity of the sloping mass had subsided from its own friction. I was obliged to resign my pole in the struggle, feeling...

...and completed tho catastrophe by burying us all at once in its mass, and hurrying us downward toward two crevasses about a furlong below us, and nearly parallel to the line of our march. Tho accumulation of snow instantly threw me backwards, and I was carried down, in spite of all my struggles....

...burying us all at once in its mass, and hurrying us downwards towards two crevasses about a furlong from us, and nearly parallel to the line of our march....the falling mass had subsided from its own friction. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. 67 I was obliged to resign my pole in the struggle, feeling it forced out of my...

...endeavouring to regain my footing, when, in a few seconds, the snow on our right — which, of course, was above us — rushed into the gap thus suddenly made,...because the velocity of the falling mass had subsided. I was obliged to resign my pole in the struggle, feeling it forced out of my hand. A short time afterwards...

...finding, perhaps, that * They were both lost in the subsequent calamity. VOL. rx. January, 1826. 4 546 my present one was much less laborious. To this apparently...parallel to the line of our march. The accumulation of *nnw instantly threw me backwards, and I was carried down in spite of all my struggles. In less than...