310 Ascent of the Jungfrau in 1841. 
tion his knowledge of mountains was to commit an out- 
rage upon him; that although he had not yet been on the 
Jungfrau, he was not on that account less acquainted with it, 
and that he would leave us on the instant if any doubt con- 
tinued to be entertained about the paltry peak on the right. 
On Agassiz’ suggestion, it was then determined that we 
should follow Jacob whithersoever he might lead us. In fact 
we ascertained soon after that he was not mistaken. The 
peak which the Valaisan pointed out to us, and to which we 
gave the name of Trugberg, on account of the error into which 
it must have led us, is a less elevated mountain, situated to 
the south of Ménch, and forming part of the mass of the 
Griinhorn, while it is assuredly on the summit of the Jung- 
frau that the flag was placed, which still floats on the highest 
point of the Bernese Alps. 
The Repose is one of the most beautiful situations on a 
glacier that can possibly be met with. We here find ourselves 
in front of an immense amphitheatre, in which five great con- 
fluent branches of the glacier of the Aletsch become con- 
founded with each other. Two of the most considerable of 
these occupy the background. They descend, one from the 
sides of the Jungfrau—and it is this which many travellers 
name the Glacier of the Jungfrau—and the other from the 
summit of Ménch; this latter, which one is naturally inclined 
to call the Glacier of the Monch (as far as the name of glacier 
can be applied to such collections of snow), is in no respect 
inferior to that of the Jungfrau. The three others are more 
lateral ; one of them is on the right side, and two on the left ; 
the most considerable of the last are connected with the same 
Trugberg, which some of our guides took for the Jungfrau. 
The Eiger sends no affluents into the valley of Aletsch. The 
Monch on the right, and the Jungfrau on the left, are in some 
measure the two columns of the great amphitheatre which in 
this place separates the Swiss plain from the Valais. The col 
lying between the two peaks is nearly 11,000 feet high. 
Rohrdorf crossed it in 1828, when he tried to ascend the 
Jungfrau. M. Hugi likewise passed over it, when he repeated 
this attempt in 1832. Although of no great breadth, the col 
here presents itself in an entirely different form from what it 
