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ate ; visited another waterfall, and then walked half 

 an hour out of our way to the foot of the Rosenlaui 

 glacier, which descends to only 4,200 feet above the 

 level of the sea ; found a party there, two gentlemen 

 and lady, the latter carried in a chair ; admired the 

 pure white surface, entered a little way into one of the 

 crevices, looked down into the deep azure chasms ; 

 returning, viewed the awful gorge through which the 

 stream from the glaciers makes its way, at least 500 

 feet deep, and only four or five feet wide, the water 

 rushing and boiling and roaring in the bottom like 

 mad. Threw down a big stone, and heard it crashing 

 against the sides and shattered to atoms. Continued 

 up the Scheideck, close along the broad and vast per- 

 pendicular side of the Wetterhorn ; finally reached 

 the summit of the pass (6,040 feet), and enjoyed the 

 magnificent view of the mountains down the valley of 

 the Grindelwald. The Wetterhorn (peak of tem- 

 pests) rises, one vast precipice of alpine limestone, its 

 base extending from Grindelwald on the one side 

 almost to Rosenlaui on the other, and so near us that 

 it seemed easy for a strong man to throw a stone 

 against it, though it is really more than a mile off ; 

 its summit is 11,450 feet above the sea ; this precipice 

 consequently forms a wall about 6,000 feet in height. 

 Next to this is the Mettenberg (perhaps 10,000 

 feet) ; and next, the great Eiger (giant, 12,220 

 feet), presenting its long thin edge, like the blade of a 

 hatchet turned up into the air ; while back of the 

 Mettenberg appears the pointed cone of the Schreck- 

 horn (the peak of terror, 12,500 feet). The vast 

 space between these peaks is filled by an immense 

 glacier, here and there interrupted, which under vari- 

 ous names extends from Rosenlaui and Grindelwald 



