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ate; visited another waterfall, and then walked half 
an hour out of our way to the foot of the Rosenlaui 
glacier, which descends to only 4,200 feet above the 
level of the sea; found a party there, two gentlemen 
and lady, the latter carried in a chair; admired the 
‘pure white surface, entered a little way into one of the 
crevices, looked down into the deep azure chasms; 
returning, viewed the awful gorge through which the 
stream from the glaciers makes its way, at least 500 
feet deep, and only four or five feet wide, the water 
rushing and boiling and roaring in the bottom like 
mad. ‘Threw down a big stone, and heard it crashing 
against the sides and shattered to atoms. Continued 
up the Scheideck, close along the broad and vast per- 
pendicular side of the Wetterhorn; finally reached 
the summit of the pass (6,040 feet), and enjoyed the 
magnificent view of the mountains down the valley of 
the Grindelwald. The Wetterhorn (peak of tem- 
pests) rises, one vast precipice of alpine limestone, its 
base extending from Grindelwald on the one side 
almost to Rosenlaui on the other, and so near us that 
it seemed easy for a strong man to throw a stone 
against it, though it is really more than a mile off ; 
its summit is 11,450 feet above the sea; this precipice 
consequently forms a wall about 6,000 feet in height. 
Next to this is the Mettenberg (perhaps 10,000 
feet); and next, the great Eiger (giant, 12,220 
feet), presenting its long thin edge, like the blade of a 
hatchet turned up into the air; while back of the 
Mettenberg appears the pointed cone of the Schreck- 
horn (the peak of terror, 12,500 feet). The vast 
space between these peaks is filled by an immense 
glacier, here and there interrupted, which under vari- 
ous names extends from Rosenlaui and Grindelwald 
