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l>y the heat of our bodies. The kitchen is without, under 

 the same rock, where strong decoctions of tea, coffee, and 

 soup from time to time are made. It is astonishing how 

 w- accustom ourselves to anything. We have our ward- 

 robe nearly all on our backs, and of course we did not 

 undress very much ; but this morning, by Agassiz' advice, 

 I sponged myself over from a pail of iced water in 

 the ojx-n air with great refreshment, To complete the 

 novelty, I have just smoked a cigar for the first time 

 in n jy lite, with no disagreeable consequences, but the 

 rse. If this weather lasts, we go down the Grimsel 

 wait better. Agassiz has just asked the guides without 

 how the weather is? And the answer, "It is raining 

 white," is not consolatory : the snow is eight or ten 

 inches deep. We have brought plenty of clothes, books, 

 and instruments, not to mention victuals and wine, which 

 keep mind and body in a most healthy state. We are 

 fortunate in being alone with him, the other companions 

 of his journey being not yet arrived. Agassiz has brought 

 the Athenceum and Literary Gazette down to the 24th 

 July; so we are quite in the world, and yet out of 



Journal, August 13th. 



Occupied much time in actinometrical observations. 

 In the course of the day M. Chambrier of Neuchatel 

 joined us with three friends, and left us before evening. 

 went down to the cast side of the Lauter-Aar 

 Gletscher, to examine a contact of polished rock and ice, 

 of which M. Agassiz took a section. Some wine we had 

 poured into a bole in the iee (with a temperature, of 28) 

 had wholly disappeared this rvming. . . . There slept 

 this night in the cabane MM. Agassiz, Voght, Giraid, 

 Roliertson of Elgin, Burckhardt the artist, Heath, and 



o young English nol.l Lord C and Lord 



had arrived during the day, srekinr quarters : 

 nois shooting: but our philoeophen were th-re for 



nt. and 1 : m to have 



