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Stock I clearly saw the curved transverse crevasses 

 and a distinct trainee of stones. It was an event in 

 our lives. From Brunnen to Fluelen the contortions 

 of the rocks exceeded anything I ever saw in the most 

 intricate old rocks of Wales. Whole mountains were 

 reversed, 4000 or 5000 feet high. I got a good 

 notion of these contortions, but very little of the 

 absolute character of the rocks, for I had no chance of 

 touching them. 



1 1 th. Were rowed by two men and a woman to 

 Interlaken. The scenery is so large and grand, the 

 cliffs so great, the strikes, dips, and contortions of the 

 great masses of strata so enormous and so grandly 

 exposed, and the immense slopes of talus below, 

 scarred with frequent torrents, give such overwhelming 

 ideas of the incessant effects of atmospheric disintegra 

 tion. England, Wales, and Scotland gave me no idea 

 of it before. At Interlaken we saw descending from 

 the Breithorn a genuine glacier, not very large appar 

 ently, for it was twelve miles off. We had a little 

 geological scrimmage among the limestones. 



One of the most interesting features of this Swiss 

 tour was an excursion which Ramsay, leaving his wife 

 for a couple of days at the Grimsel, made with Dolfuss- 

 Ausset to the Ober Aar glacier. He gave an account 

 of this expedition in his article on Swiss and Welsh 

 glaciers, published seven years later in Peaks, Passes, 

 and Glaciers ; but the original narrative in his diary 

 contains a few personal details which may find a place 

 here. 



\&amp;gt;]th August. Went with the guide to find the 

 &quot; Pavilion &quot; of M. Dolfuss. It was perched upon a rock 

 some miles off. He is a great gaunt man, and stood on 

 a rock with a blue bonnet on his head, and a veil 



