332 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



their journey, three leagues of which yet lay 

 before them, and at half-past eleven arrived 

 at the chalets of Meril, which they had left at 

 dawn. 



On the morrow the party broke up, and 

 Agassiz and Desor, accompanied by their 

 friend, M. Escher de la Linth, returned to 

 the Grimsel, and after a day's rest there re- 

 paired once more to the Hotel des Neuchate- 

 lois. They remained on the glacier until the 

 5th of September, spending these few last 

 days in completing their measurements, and in 

 planting the lines of stakes across the glacier, 

 to serve as a means of determining its rate 

 of movement during the year, and the com- 

 parative rapidity of that movement at certain 

 fixed points. Thus concluded one of the most 

 eventful seasons Agassiz and his companions 

 had yet passed upon the Alps.^ 



^ Though quoting his exact language only in certain in- 

 stances, the account of this and other Alpine ascensions de- 

 scribed above has been based upon M. E. Desor's Sejours 

 dans les Glaciers. His very spirited narratives, added to my 

 own recollections of what. I had heard from Mr. Agassiz 

 himself on the same subject, have given me my material. — 

 E. C. A. 



