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CHAPTER XXV. 



A STROLL WITHOUT MY EIFLE. 



WHOEVER passes through Partenkirchen should take 

 a walk to " The Clam." It is a wonderful place, and 

 the unlearned as well as the learned cannot fail to be 

 impressed by the sight. Even he who knows nothing 

 of geology, will understand that this earth of ours must 

 be very old, when he sees the channel that the water 

 has here for centuries been gnawing through the solid 

 rock. Go and look at it, and stop there awhile ; and 

 as you peep over into the deep chasm, try to think of 

 the years that the water has been thus toiling to wear 

 out the hard stone ; and how one century dragged on, 

 and another weary century, and the still toiling water 

 had only got a little lower down. After that, and 

 when you see what it has accomplished, the word 

 "Time" may perhaps convey to your mind another 

 meaning than it has hitherto done. 



The Eib See is not far off, and I went there. It 

 lies at the foot of the Zug Spitz it seems so at least, 



