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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all,
as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.
I passed the bridge of Pelissier, where the ravine, which the river
forms, opened before me, and I began to ascend the mountain that
overhangs it. Soon after, I entered the valley of Chamounix.
This valley is more wonderful and sublime, but not so beautiful and
picturesque as that of Servox, through which I had just passed.
The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries, but I
saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields. Immense glaciers
approached the road; I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling
avalanche and marked the smoke of its passage. Mont Blanc, the
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