252 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1839, 
should be scarcely able to move the next day, and that 
traveling on foot would be impossible. But I awoke 
perfectly restored, my limbs supple and my feet much 
better than I had anticipated ; my guide made his ap- 
pearance while I was at breakfast; said that it would 
take three days to make the excursion over the Great 
Scheideck to Grindelwald, then over the Lesser to the 
Wengern Alp, to Lauterbrunnen, and back to Mey- 
ringen by Interlaken and the Lake of Brienz. [insisted 
that it should be done in two, with the aid of a char 
from Brienz, at the end of the second day. Leaving 
my knapsack here, and taking a few things in our 
pockets, we set out at half past nine; stopped on our 
way to see the falls of the Reichenbach, where the 
stream of the valley we were climbing makes the de- 
scent of 2,000 feet in a succession of leaps ; the longest 
forms the celebrated falls, — very fine. Farther above 
numerous waterfalls are seen dangling from the per- 
pendicular sides of the narrow valley ; one, remarkably 
high and slender, is called the Seilbach (rope-fall). 
Rceceled through beautiful mountain pastures, dotted 
with chalets; the ae of the Wetterhorn in full view 
directly before us, a sharp pyramid, one side dark 
rock, the other pure white snow. The body of the 
mountain was still hidden by the Wellhorn, the first of 
the chain of high Bernese Alps we were approaching 
(9,500 feet); then the Engelhérner (angel’s-peaks) 
and high up between these, we had a fine distant view 
of the most beautiful glacier in Switzerland, the Ro- 
senlaui, celebrated above all others for the purity of 
its untarnished white surface, and the clear azure of 
its depths and caverns. Stopped at a little inn, which 
is occupied only through the summer ; got an excel- 
lent little dinner at half past eleven, charges moder- 
