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Title
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Letters, July 12th, 1911_017
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Alternative Title
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Letters, July 12th, 1911
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Date
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July 12th, 1911
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Creator
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Edith Schwartz Clements
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Description
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Edith Schwartz Clements handwritten letter
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Identifier
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nshs-rg3158am
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Transcription
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pered on all fours gladly to the horizontal path above. Our objective reached at last, we were overwhelmed with the view along the whole ridge. The edge of this, toward the valley where erosion had taken place was a series of ragged precipices 5,000 ft high! Simply tremendous! We have nothing like it. It appeases & overawes one. It was two o’clock when we reached the summit & we were ravenous again, so we finished our rolls, since chocolate cakes which were mashed flat & some candy. Then down, down, down, a zig-zag trail over a slope so steep that a trail could scarcely have been made, were it steepens. I had not felt at all tired on that upward pull & we found breathing not at all bothersome being used to much rarer air, but the downward jar & jolt combined with the fact that my shoes were too large & chafed the skin off my toes made the way very painful indeed. My cavalier was very attentive & I cheered the way by practising my German, until I found he and was from a French province & so I tried French. It is a very difficult feat to change at once from
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Rights
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