Monte Rosa, an Alpine mountain mass with four principal peaks, in the Pennine ridge which separates the Swiss canton of Valais from Italy. The highest peak, the Dufourspitze, 15,217 feet high, is extremely difficult of ascent, and was first climbed by Mr Smyth in 1855.
Monte Rosa
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 286
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