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certainly one of tlie most romantic spots in the wildest and finest part of 
the lake of the four cantons. Landing, and running up to the Sonncn- 
b erg, where is a delightful “pension,” Mr. Forster, who started on his 
journey in bad health, found means, in a few days, so far to recruit that 
he determined to set out on an expedition, which we will now briefly 
abstract. The Sonnenberg, by the way, is strongly recommended as an 
easy and extremely accessible retreat from the great herd of travellers, 
and, situated as it is on the promontory of high land forming the last of 
the great recesses of the Lake of Lucerne, the situation is in every respect 
admirable. 
From Sonnenberg to Isenthal is a pleasant walk, and Isenthal is also a 
pleasant place — small, clean, and not over-civilized or over-frequented. 
At Isenthal the work begins, and Mr. Forster selected the more difficult of 
the two routes to the Uri-Rothstock, a very grand peak, which forms a 
prominent object in most of the views of the Lake of Lucerne. It took 
six hours from Isenthal, and was rewarded, not only by a grand view of 
the country, but by the sight of a flock of fourteen chamois, which passed 
close to the party — a very rare sight, nowadays, under any circumstances, 
in Switzerland, and one that did not last long. In fact, when the leader 
of the four-footed party discovered his natural enemy, our author calcu- 
lates that they went off at the rate of more than twenty miles an hour. 
The near view from the Uri-Rothstock is preferred by Mr. Forster to that 
of Titlis,' tlie glacier and neve extending to the next peak, the Engel- 
berger Rothstock {red stich — the cones are of pinkish limestone). There 
are, however, no extraordinary difficulties, and Mr. Forster proceeded 
alone from this point to the valley of Engelberg. The field of snow tra- 
versed requires two hours to cross. 
There are few more delightful spots in Switzerland than the valley of 
Engelberg ; and at the establishment there, the Hotel de l’Ange, every 
reasonable comfort is obtained at most reasonable prices. It is large and 
well provided, and there is a good road to it from the lower part of the 
Lake of Lucerne opposite Pilatus. From it, also, numerous excursions 
may be made, and some of the grandest scenery is very approachable. 
Titlis raises his head immediately adjacent. The Surenen pass is close at 
hand, by which, if preferred, either Altdorf or Sonnenberg may be reached. 
The J och conducts across to Meyringen ; and, for those who are more ad- 
venturous, there is a pass on the other side of Titlis across a vast field of 
ice into the Gadrnen Thai. Thence the member of the Alpine Club, dis- 
daining accustomed routes, finds a way across a large, very remarkable, 
and interesting field of ice — the Trift — pass to the Grimsel. 
While on the Surenen Egg, accompanying some friends who were on 
their way to Altdorf, our adventurer experienced one of those grand, 
though not very rare, meteorological phenomena — a thunderstorm. The 
storm passed beneath his feet — rushing up, borne upon tlie fierce south- 
west wind at a fearful pace, to meet a mass of rain-cloud coming down 
from the Weiss-stock. Alone on the mountain ridge, exposed to the 
pitiless beating of hailstones coming down like rifle-bullets, our traveller 
wisely waited, under shelter of some stones fallen from the rock above, 
till thg violence of the storm had passed. 
