Photograph by Gebr. Wehrli 



THE SPRAYBROOK AT LAUTERBRUNNEN, SWITZERLAND 



Grace, rather than volume, distinguishes the Staubbach. This mere brook, seeming to poise for a 

 moment at the lofty take-ofT, falls almost reluctantly from the jutting precipice, 980 feet above the 

 valley floor. Here is no hurrying rush, but rather the leisurely unwinding of a silver ribbon against the 

 dark face of the cliff. By moonlight the effect is marvelous, for the light cascade, dropping from its 

 fastenings above, is transformed in mid-air to diamond dust of pale spray. 



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