steep and rugged. On our way we visited the upper Fall of the Reichenbach, situated at a short distance to the right of the road. At a hut near the fall, and from which we viewed it, I purchased a walking stick which has a chamois's horn for a handle. The stream of the Reichenbach performs a descent of nearly 2000 feet in a succession of leaps. At the Baths of Rosenlaui we halted, where the guides refreshed themselves and their beasts. Of course, we did not forget that we also had mortal bodies. About a mile to the left of the path in the midst of a forest of firs is the beautiful Glacier of Rosenlaui. "It is smaller than those of Grindelwald," says Murray, "but is celebrated above all others in Switzerland for the untarnished purity of its white surface, and the clear transparent azure of its icebergs. This peculiarity arises doubtless from its having no medial mordine."

Here our nephew lost his alpine stick in struggling with a man who laid claim to a large stone which the doctor had rolled down an elevation for the purpose, on our arrival, of throwing it into the torrent that issues from this glacier, the waters of which may be seen boiling in a deep chasm which they have worn some 200 feet below. This took place before we had reached the spot, and it was a mercy that neither of them, or both, was precipitated to the bottom. The fellow, who attempted to throw him into this horrible place, appeared to me to be half-witted, and gained his livelihood, the guides informed us, by obtaining a few pence from tourists whom he amused by dropping stones, or pieces of rock, over the frail bridge thrown across the chasm into the seething waters below. Perhaps he thought that he was lord of this Petræa. By the way, none of the men whom I saw in Switzerland appeared to me to possess

great physical power. Better living, however, I have no doubt would improve them in this matter.

Resuming our journey we passed over the Great Scheideck. The Wetterhorn (Peak of Tempests), as you descend into the valley, is an object of stupendous sublimity. I ought to have stated that on the top of the Scheideck (6480 feet above the sea level) we gazed, and gazed again, on the wonderful works of God. What order, what harmony, and what beauty are in all His works. And yet, alas! how few have pleasure therein, and still fewer who, with the eye of faith, behold the stupendous works of the Almighty in the world of nature, providence, and grace. "He hath made every thing beautiful in his time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end."

Adam Clarke translates the Hebrew word haolam, in this passage, eternity.

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In the evening we arrived at Grindelwald which owes its celebrity to the grandeur of the mountains which surround it, and to its two Glaciers. These are almost within a stone's throw of human habitations. solid icebergs of the Lower Glacier descend to a point only 3200 feet above the level of the sea. The minarets of ice that rise in various height and form are very striking. In 1821 M. Mouron, a clergyman of Vevay, was lost in one of the crevices. His body, after 12 days of fruitless attempts, was drawn out of an abyss in the ice, said to have been 700 feet deep (?), by a guide named Burgueneu. Although a Protestant, he was buried in the church of Grindelwald.

Yours,

J. H.

My dear Sir,

I now resume my narrative from July 10th, Friday. We remained the whole of this day at the village of Grindelwald. Most of the children are beggars. The valley has not been inhabited above 400 years. It stands at a height of 3250 feet above the sea. Some 6000 head of cattle are fed on the neighbouring pastures. The inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in rearing cattle, were busy with their hay, This they put into a loft which is connected with the house.] Perhaps, I had better said, a kind of barn with ground floor, and a higher floor. The former, I suppose, is used in winter for the cattle. Those who cannot afford to employ horses or oxen to cart the hay, carry it themselves in immense baskets fastened to their shoulders. This appeared to me to involve great