THE UPPER AAR. 
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wall of the Oberland passes west to Meiringen over 
the Grosse Scheidegg, and east to Lauterbrunnen 
over the Kleine Scheidegg. At Lauterbrunnen is the 
beautiful Staubbach waterfall, one of the highest in 
Europe, the fall being between 800 and 900 feet. 
The height being so great, and the volume of water 
comparatively so small, it is shivered into spray before 
reaching the bottom, whence its name, the Dust 
Stream. “It is,” says Byron, “in shape, curving over 
the rock, like the tail of a white horse streaming in 
the wind — such as it might be conceived would be 
that of the ‘pale horse’ on which Death is mounted 
in the Apocalypse. It is neither mist nor water, but 
a something between both; its immense height gives 
it a wave or curve — a spreading here or condension 
there, wonderful and indescribable.”* 
The Lake of Brienz occupies a deep synclinal fold, 
the strata on the South side of the Lake are vertical, 
sometimes indeed overhanging. Fig. 127 shows a 
section from north to south; from Guggenhilrli across 
the Habkern valley and the Harder ridge to the Aar 
near Interlaken. It will be seen that the valley of 
Habkern is a valley of erosion, and that the Harder 
and Rieder Grat is formed by Urgonian, Neocomian, 
Byron’s Journal. 
