8.25.2009

"Mr. Henshaw related, that he had heard, that those, who went to the top of mount Olympus and other hills, used to breath through a spunge dipt in oil."
-Birch, History of the Royal Society of London (1756), vol. II, p. 184 (June 27, 1667)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If only Jon Krakauer et al had known.