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chief point of interest, which would look dwarfed if taken with a short-focus lens. No. 88 is the view taken one evening at six p.m. from the rocks we selected forourgte before the ascent of Mont Mallet. My friend H and I, with our guide and two porters, had come up the glacier and climbed up some steep and broken rocks, among which we found a sort of platform and some holes and crevices among the piled-up granite boulders, which, by a considerable stretch of the imagination, we thought were con vertible into kitchen, supper-table, and bedrooms respectively. While the guides busied themselves in making a fire and melting some snow, I set up the camera, with considerable difficulty finding three firm rocks within range of the camera legs, and another to stand on ; and, having selected by means of the view meter the Dallmeyer seven-inch single lens, I focussed the magnificent precipices of the Grandes Jorasses immediately facing us on the opposite side of the glacier—more than a mile away. After putting in the smallest stop (about 4) and a Wratten and Wainwright’s “ ordinary ” plate, I gave four seconds’ exposure. It was nearly six p.m. and the sun was getting low, so this comparatively long exposure, as the result shows, was none too much. My companion—who had constituted himself chef in the culinary department—now announced that the soup was ready; so I packed up the camera and helped to lay the table for supper and set out the glass and plate. After supper—which we finished with a brew of mulled wine —we sat round the fire telling stories, and watching the lovely red sunset tints on the snow fading into cold grey, and did not go to bed till the stars were out and the moon had risen over the crags of the Grandes Jorasses. We slept (or pretended to do so) till about midnight, when 1 was roused by feeling a little cold spot on my face. Soon came another, and then several more, and I looked up to find the stars all gone, and rain begin ning to fall. Afterwards we heard rumblings of distant thunder, and the rain began to come down in earnest. The knapsacks and photographic things were all lying about, so I wriggled out of the hole, and, scrambling at some risk over the rocks in the dark, I found the guides had already put them under shelter. By the first gleams of daybreak the rain had stopped ; so, although we were wet and miserable, and the sky still threaten ing, we decided not to give in, but to go for our mountain. The guides got a fire lit somehow, and we made a brew of chocolate, and managed to eat some bread and cheese, and then we got ready to start. I was very doubtful about taking the camera, as the weather looked so uncertain ; but, remembering my rule never to leave it behind on account of the weather only, I decided to take it, and at 4.30 a.m. we left our bivouac and clambered down the rocks on to the glacier again. I need not describe in detail our climb up Mont Mallet. To those who have not been “ on a rope ” among the High Alps, such a description would be almost meaningless, and it would be certainly out of place in a photo graphic journal. Suffice it to say that we duly reached the top (13,000 feet high) at 10’30 a.m.; the weather, to our great sat'sfaction, had cleared up entirely, and the day was perfect. Mont Mallet stands up between the Grandes Jorasses and the Dent du Gant, and commands superb views, the most striking being those of the peaks just named. Turning westwards we see the grand mass of Mont Blanc, five miles away, with the dark spire of the Dent du Gant immediately in front of it,* and comparatively near at hand (900 yards); while facing round to the east one sees the precipices of the Grandes Jorasses from above instead of from below, as on the previous day. The latter view was taken with the Dallmeyer seven-inch lens, and the two former ones with Ross’s eight-inch symmetrical, the exposure being in each case, with the smallest stop, about one and a-half seconds. Having packed up the camera, weanused ourselves by wat:hing with the telescope another party of our f riends from the Montanvert, who were just then on the top of the Aiguille du Midi—one of the high rock peaks cloee to Mont Blanc, and nearly four miles away from us across the Glacier du Gant. The air is so clear at these heights that it is very difficult to estimate distance and size, and it is the chief fault of small photographs of the Alps, that they give so little idea of the vast scale of these mountains and glaciers, owing to the absence of atmospheric haze. Down in the valleys there is generally more haze, so there this fault is not so conspicuous. Our descent to * See our Pictorial Supplement this week.—Ed, P.N, the Montanvert calls for no particular rem k, except that on (eaching the foot of the Glacier du Geant we fell in with our friends from the Aiguille du Midi, and with them threaded the now-familiar crevasses of the Mer de Glace, reaching the hotel in time for dinner at seven o’clock. (To bs continued.) Corresponence. PHOTOGRAPHY AND TRICYCLING. Sir,—If you do not consider the subject entirely thrashed out, perhaps you would allow me to add my mite, not as to form of tricycle, but as to means of carrying one’s appa ratus. 1 obtained what is known as “ a tricycle bag,” which exactly holds my camera (7} by four double backs, focussing cloth, a couple of lenses, shutter, &c. It is made of red waterproof canvas, with a longitudinal division in the body, forming two large pockets; one of them holds the slides, the other, camera, &c.; while sundry small articles can be stowed in some of the smaller receptacles, while the stand (folding) straps on the top. It is readily attached to the back of the seat, and over level ground adds nothing to the fatigue of driving, which, resembling in size an ordinary tourist knapsack, the addition of two or three morash straps enables it to be readily attached to the back, or carried in the hand under circumstances when for any reason the tricycle is unavailable. These bags can, I believe, be had of various sizes, and I think intending photo-tiicyclists might do worse than look at such arrangements before deciding. I can bear witness to its convenience.—Yours truly, Greenwood Pim. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION. Dear Sib,—In your third notice of the Exhibition you say ; “ Mr. Vernon Heath is not so happy this year with his exhibits,” and then you instance certain views in the Isle of Skye. Let me explain that these are not mine, and that, unfortunately for myself, I am not this year an exhibitor. How such an error occurred I know not; but in the original edition of the catalogue I was named as the author of the subjects you refer to, and it was this, doubtlessly, that misled you. I greatly regret that I am unrepresented in the Exhibition, but the time of year it is held is the most difficult of all for me to prepare new work, for it is then, and for three months previously, 1 am in the country.—Yours faithfully, Vebnon Heath. PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE ANTIPODES. Dear Sir,—Your issue of June 29th, just to hand, con tains a short account of some photographs produced by Thomas Francis, Esq., of Sydney, N.s.W. 1 am delighted to know that the clever work of this gentleman is at last known in England. I can fully endorse all contained in your notice. I believe he has brought this branch of photo graphy nearer to perfection than it has been done before. Mr. Francis, after much labour, has devised and con structed with hisown hands the most perfect machanism for making exposures, and with a reliable arrangement for registering the time of exposures beyond doubt. He has also made a valuable discovery relative to developing out with full detail these pictures, and I sincerely hope his modesty will not prevent him from coming forward in re gard to these matters.—I am, yours truly, D. Scott. Stanmore, near Sydney, N. S. Wales. [We’trust Mr. Francis will be induced to give our readers the benefit of bis experiences.—Ed. P.N.] “HOW THE CHITTY WEE WAS TAKEN.” Dear Sir,—I read with much interest Mr. West's short account of how he photographed his yachts. At the same
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