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over, and my feet apparently spoiled. To-morrow, 
perhaps, I will tell you something about it. 
GRINDELWALD, Thursday, half past five, 27th June. 
I take the first leisure hour to resume my account. 
I find that I must have walked about thirty-four miles 
yesterday, making due allowance for the windings of 
the path. I commenced at five o’clock, reached En- 
gelberg at nine, where I rested till half past eleven, 
and reached Meyringen, as I said before, at half past 
seven. The journey from Stanz is through a narrow 
but fertile valley inclosed by high and picturesque 
mountains for about seven miles, when the valley con- 
tracts, the mountains on each side rise to a great height 
into sharp and bare peaks, leaving barely room for 
the Aa to descend between. It forms, I may say, one 
continual cataract from Engelberg to this point. Be- 
fore this pass is reached I had gone by some other 
mountains which were very remarkable; among them 
the Brisenstock, a ridge of rock like the upturned 
edge of a hatchet, some 6,000 feet high, and throw- 
ing up from one extremity a column of rock like a 
vast obelisk. The road, which is carried at consid- 
erable elevation along one side of this narrow valley, 
is not difficult, and exhibits the whole way the most 
sublime scenery. The Wallenstock rises on one side 
to the height of above 8,000 feet; and those on the 
other side are not less lofty. Presently the shining 
summit of the Titlis rises before you, surrounded by 
others scarcely less elevated. The Titlis is the highest 
of the Unterwalden Alps, 10,710 feet. You then ar- 
rive at a place where the Aa forms a series of cataracts 
in the bottom of the gorge, nearly a thousand feet 
below you; the opposite mountain exhibits an almost 
