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EDWARD, an English traveler; born in London, England, April 27, 1840. He was famous as a mountain climber; was the first to ascend the Matterhorn and other great Alpine peaks; ascended several of the greatest of the Andes; and traveled in Greenland. He published, and himself illustrated, "Swiss Pictures" (1866); "Scrambles Among the Alps" (1869); "Travels Among the Great Andes of the Equator" (1892); etc. He died in 1911.

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