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over, and my feet apparently spoiled. To-morrow, 

 perhaps, I will tell you sometMng about it. 



Geindelwald, 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 

 subHme 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 



