THE BERNESE OBERLAND. 
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the deep blue of the lake, the precipice of ice, the 
glacier, the green meadows and the surrounding 
mountains, make one of the most beautiful and ex- 
traordinary scenes in the whole Alps. 
The view from the summit of the Eggischhorn has 
long been celebrated for its extreme beauty. 
The Lotschen Thai district is one of the most in- 
teresting and instructive regions in the whole Alps, 
and the contortions here attain their greatest com- 
plexity. 
The ridge of which the Ferden Rothhorn, the 
Resti Rothhorn, and the Faldum Rothhorn form three 
summits, is especially remarkable. In Fig. 122 we 
see that the strata are very steeply inclined, and 
form a compressed synclinal fold, itself again several 
times folded. The centre of this trough now forms 
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