Unidad documental simple 108 - James Coulman Ross: "Journal of a tour in Switzerland, &c, &c, during the summer of the year 1864"

Incomplete illustrated fair copy of a travel journal which stops in the middle of chapter 4 of a projected 9 chapters. MS title page continues, 'Illustrated with plates, vignettes, plans, and a map of the route taken from the time of entering Switzerland to the time of leaving it at Basle; by James Coulman Ross; of Trinity College, Cambridge; Life member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.' With a contents page that projects chapters and plates not completed here; present is a folding panorama map from the Aeggischorn and from the Mettelhorn, a folding map of the route in Switzerland, and a folding table, 'Notes from the thermometer, aneroid, & barometer, copied from observations taken by Rev. Geo. C. Hodgkinson'. Ross travelled with George Christopher Hodgkinson, George Frederick Hodgkinson, George James Spence Hodgkinson, and Grosvenor Hodgkinson.