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tracted by a more elevated motive, the desire to participate in 

 our labours, or to testify by their visit the interest which they 

 took in the investigations we were prosecuting ; and, as the 

 happiness which we experience at meeting with persons for 

 whom we entertain a profound veneration, or with whom we 

 are on terms of sincere friendship, was heightened by the 

 beauty of the locality, I felt my heart beat with joy whenever 

 I recognised a friend among the travellers who arrived along 

 with the carrier of provisions about eleven o''clock in the 

 morning. I am proud to be able to name among the number 

 of those who visited me or lived with me at the Hotel des 

 Neuchatelois^ General Pfuel, governor of Neuchatel, who, not- 

 withstanding his age, performed on foot the arduous journey 

 across the glacier, being unwilling to be outstripped even by 

 the youngest ; Lord Enniskillen, whose zeal does not give 

 way before any fatigue, when the progress of science is in 

 question ; MM. Adolphe and Alfred de Rougemont, whom we 

 are always sure to meet whenever any object of utility con- 

 nected with Switzerland is concerned ; my excellent friend 

 Professor Studer of Berne ; Mr and Mrs Trevelyan ; Messrs 

 Guyot, Robertson, Cole, Nicholson, Martins, Canson, &c. 

 Lastly, I have already had occasion to mention among the 

 number of those who took an active part in my labours, M. 

 Escher de la Linth, as well as Messieurs Desor, Vogt, Forbes, 

 and Heath. All shared my habitation at the Hotel des Neu- 

 chatelois ; and I took care to have all their names cut on one 

 of the surfaces of the large block which served us as a shelter. 

 I had intended again to have encamped this year under this 

 same block, with which so many recollections are associated 

 in my mind ; but my guides have dissuaded me, by asserting 

 that there would be danger for the colony in doing so, owing 

 to the block being so much fissured. I have, therefore, given 

 orders for the construction of a tent at the side of the old 

 Hotel des Neuchdtelois ; and it is there that I hope next 

 June and July to welcome all the friends of glaciers who may 

 choose to pay me a visit. 



