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him concerning the same Spirit that dictated the Book of Reve- 

 lation ; and he may return to his dwelling, and lay his head up- 

 on his pillow, in confidence that the hand of the infidel can nei- 

 ther shake the foundations of the earth, nor roll the waves of 

 the ocean over him, far less destroy the fabric of the heavens, or 

 chain his soul in its flight to eternity. 



Ascent to the summit of the Jung/rau, in the Canton of Berne. 



X HE two colossal chains of Mont Blanc in Savoy, and Mont 

 Rosa in Valais, although they include the highest summits of 

 the Alps, are more accessible to the hunters than that of the 

 Alps of the Bernese Oberland. The latter is rather a group 

 than a chain. In a space of a fevf leagues are crowded together 

 a number of peaks, little inferior to those of the two other chains. 

 The following are the principal-: 



Feet. 



Finsteraarhorn, ... 14091 



Jungfrau, .... 13746 



Monch, .... 13498 



Schreckhorn, . . - 13383 



Grand Eiger, - - - 13071 



Wetterhom, . - - 12201 



Blumlis-alp, - - - 12143 



The sides of these gigantic peaks, covered with eternal snows, 

 present on all hands frightful precipices, and their bases are se- 

 parated by vast glaciers, which seem to render them for ever in- 

 accessible. Very few of them, accordingly, have ever been 

 scaled. The perilous attempts made to scale the highest have 

 always been unsuccessful. We now learn that, on the 10th 

 September 1828, the summit of the Jungfrau was reached by 

 seven hunters or shepherds of the village of Grindelwald, named 

 Peter and Christian Roth, Peter and Christian Baumann, Ul- 

 rich Widmer, Peter Moser, and Hidbrand Bilrgner. 



On the 8th, furnished with pikes, ropes, ladders, and a red 

 and white flag, they began to ascend the glacier, which is situ- 

 ated between the Grand Eiger and Mettenberg ; then turning 

 to the right, they rested all night under an arch of rocks, on the 

 southern side of the Grand Eiger. 



