444 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
sand feet above the sea, caught also the first rays of morning and stood 
up in its many-colored magnificence, the only reminiscence among its 
snowy sisters of a world not covered with the glacier. One hour and 
ten minutes from the hotel brought us to the ice of the Gérner glacier; 
forty minutes more took us across to the moraine on the other side, 
where the guides laid away a bottle of wine for the descent, and permit- 
ted us to take a drink of cold water. One-hour more, up an icy hill 
about as steep as the lawn in front of the Hillhouse place, with deep cre- 
vasses opening on every side, brought us to our breakfast ground—a 
mass of broken rock, rising out of the glacier, and named “Auf der 
carry any ordinary man to the top of it. Thus arranged we soon began 
to climb up the glacier, already quite steep (about 12°),—up, Up, UPs and 
ever up we went slowly and looking sharp where we stepped. First the 
utes; and after a while he declared that if we had our way it would 
fifteen i fteen minutes on our backs on the snow— 
Kuppe, where the guides took off their knapsacks—all hands had some 
new refreshment for the last great labor—the rope was doubled around 
‘us—and then Kronig set out ahead, cutting zig-zags in the fearful dome 
