ix.] ALPINE TRAVELS, 1841. 5>(>. r > 



cabanc MM. Agassiz, Nicholson, Burckhardt, Heath, and 

 myself/ 



This was their last night at the cabanc. During an 

 ascent of the Schneebighorn and an exploration of the 

 Gauli glacier, next day, Forbes was partially engulfed 

 in a crevasse, and, falling forward, severely strained both 

 bark and logs : the accident did not prevent him from 

 pursuing his observations during the remainder of the 

 day, but he did not again accompany M. Agassiz to the 

 < il.-tseher. remaining for the whole of the next week at 

 tin- (irirasel hospice. Part of this detention was caused 

 by a burst of bad weather which drove Agassiz from his 

 glacier ' our glacier ' as they always called it and the 

 belated party, * MM. Agassiz, Voght, Desor, Burckhardt, 

 :h, Mr. and Mrs. Trevelyan, and myself/ must often 

 have remembered those pleasant days, when the logs 

 kled on the great open hearthstone, while the storm 

 raged without ; and when tired of social chat M. Agassiz 

 lectured on glaciers, or Forbes on the chemistry of 

 heat, until they came to the conclusion embodied in 

 an old German proverb, ' Besser schlechtes Wetter als 

 gar keins ! ' 



A week afterwards, while suffering from snow blind- 

 ness brought on by his ascent of the Jungfrau, Forbes 

 dirtatrd to a friend the following sketch of the 

 part 



7/, Thursday. The weather bein<i a little 

 -']/. went up to the glacier with M. du 

 r and M. de 1'ury of Neuehatel. who arrived yes- 

 D th- midst of a torrent of rain, which Dr. Voght 

 '1 would prevent the arrival of anyone but a hot- 

 headed Englishman. The morning was tolerably fine. 

 but the snow had fallen <juite down to the level 'of the 

 tin- was all against the projected expedition 

 m tin- nher-Aar Jorh. f,,r which we had now wailed 



dreary bad wither. 



.-earr.-ly ivv;ret , however, OH recollecting the 



sociable hours which we spent in this plaee. to which 



80 T1 iVrlleis , ], th;in to 1- 



