[PW] Mont Blanc quotation

[John P. Dyson]

Quoting Ted Nesbitt <tedjnesbitt at verizon.net>:

> Hudson & Kennedy climbed Mont Blanc by a new route in 1855.  When
> asked if their view from the summit repaid their labour, they replied
> with the following quote:
>
> "Though steep the track,
> The mountain top will overpay, when climb'd
> The scaler's toil."

Ted,

The poem is "An Epistle to Dr. Cornwallis" by Sneyd Davies. It appears 
in in a collection by William Enfield called _The Speaker: or, 
Miscellaneous Pieces_ (London: W. Clowes, 1827), p. 94, under a heading 
called "Against Indolence." The first and third lines are truncated as 
you have them:

          "...though steep the track,
          Her mountain's top would overpay, when climb'd,
          The scaler's toil..."

You can find more about Davies in the _Oxford Dictionary of National 
Biography_.

John Dyson