Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-07-23

No. H..

me, dated so near the place whence wrote nj
last, bnt have been, like our very dearly beloved
respected, respectable President, andrew /
"swingingro the circle" aud instead of reach
ing here on Wednesday, only arrived last night.
The 18th, after finishing and mailing my letter,
lounged around the Glaciers, and "took il easy
for the remainder of the day. 18th. ATT o'clocl
shonldcrcd my pack and went on my way re
Joicing. Alter q pleasant walk of four hours
nearly all .he time in the shade of the giant Wet
terhorn, reached the Crosse Scheideck. Here
refreshed the timer man, " and took wobours
rest.
AT o'clock | was Off again, down the Menen
gen side of the mountain. Passed the Baths O
hosenlain, and made circuit to visit the Glacier
ut whose foot they are situated very beautiful
one, (Gacler, | mean.) met with very littl
snow, not more than five or six patches altogcth
or, and most of these were so small that walket
around them, instead of wading through Afte
passing Rosenloin, the path lay in the valley
shaded by trees and with flowers and wild straw.
berries in pr0fusion. A pleasant variation from
the hot and sunny descent which preceded It, An
hour through this brought me to the summit OF
the path and In full view of the Valley of Menen,
gen.. Here passed, in the descent The Falls Of
keichenbach. Never tnlk to me of Yankee mean
ness and "nearness I" The Falls, beautiful
high board fence, which entirely cuts off the view
from all who do not pay their fifty cents admis.
sion Can you imagine anything more con.
temptibly small !" The Snowman" unfortun-
ately spoke neither. French nor Engish,so my re-
marks were altogether wasted on him. He re-
ceiving with bows and smiles, and ''yaw Myn-
herr" remarks which, expect would have called
forth torrentof abuse in Suisse German, had he
/ comprehended them.
r, i reached ache Meirengen at 8 and went 10 nice
iitte hotel" The Bcar'-(evcry thing is Bcarish
IN Canton BcrneD where they spoke such
French G) as made me quite proud of my own
poor efforts in the Gallic tongue However, /
managed, in spite of this, to hold speech with
| the landlord and found from him that 's p,;ght
| walker!" s 5ooo
| of course this decided me- us l wished very
much to visit 1t, and had ineLded doing so, but
was informed at lnterlakcn that it was not pfac-
tlcable Next morning, 18th, was up bctimes
tor knew had hard days work before me-
Coffee at b, aud half an hour later was again on
ii tiif tramp; Six hours brought me to the Stein
Glacier This was once diligence road (indeed
it can be traced nearly all the way D in the early
part of this century 1t was disnsed and m has now
been destroyed by this Glacier which has, In the
last ten years, advanced two miles directly across
the road. AT small inn near by halted for rest
ana refreshment. OF course, in such place,
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logna sausage, and hard, black bread, washed
down with the sourest "Vin Ordinaire. were
Detter rellshed than many snmptuous meal has
been That ! have not earned g in the sweat of
my brow, " as certainly did this The Glacier
Is very curious one, and dyerged little to
examine the lower part, or foot of 1t, as started
on again, on and upward. 6 l1o ano ades. /"
soon found that the snow, which l had flat
tered myself should not sec much ef this day.
(as had been spared so far y began to appear
and before | reached the summit the Susten
Schedeck," l was In for 1t, once more knee
deep. An hour and half saw me on the lin
most top, and the Valley of Meinthal stretchinp
out before me- and down went Now came the
unpleasant part Of the tramp. Snow, snow.
snow there seemed Lo end to it, and for several
miles (thrce at lcasD l slipped, plunged and
iloundered through it, A fearful ANNOYANCE il
was. In some places the crust was so hard that
could aid my progress n approved Alpine fash
ion. am not equal to description, so enclose
| sketch, which will give you au idea of the airy
graceful manner in which your distinguished.
entered the Canton of Uri. have not, however.
might lead you to believe. The Alpenstock, held
as you see, serves on occasion as rudder. brake.
or driving wheel, and by judicious use of IT,
any speed can be attained or any direction taken,
When, at length stamped the clinging particles
of snow from my feet, on the bare ground again.
turned for last look at the Pass, and mira,
bile Dlctu!' Bruin had been so pleased with
my admiration of him in the den at Bernie TINT
there he stood, ON the mountain top, bowing his
adicuxl To speak literally, a large cloud was
resting on the mountain, in the exact f,rm Of n
bear, and as l looked, the head slowly inclined
and then the whole faded away.
Then down. down, down, still down the valley
until at last, ms the setting lit the mountains
around, saw my goal Wasen, before me, and
my thirteen hours walk was over. The bcsi and
the hardest days work of my life.
There found must rise ut $50 next morning,
or o., wait until II o'clock for the Diligence to
Fldelen, which latter, after yesterdays work. /
was forced to choose. 18th, at II, | was off. and
connecting with the boat ut Fuelen, arrived al
Wiggis ut 3-3O. Dined at the Golden Lion" In
Tue Register, amongst names of last summers
guests, saw that Of Wilmington relative AT
i-3O ran the gauntlet Of guides, porters and
boys, who were very anxious to assist me (in a
place where all assistance is bother, rather Than
help, and breasted the Rigi 1t was very hot
and suffered more than any day this spring,
even in Italy. When | passed the tKnltbnd y
"a water-cure, as its name indicates), my eyes re-
Joiced to see, floating amcably side by side with
those OF England, France and Switzerland, our
own dear starry tlag, and all the stars on It. tool
Involuniarily my hat was lifted us l passed, but
| restrained the cheer, which would probably
have made the loungers on the piazza take me
for a maniac, just out OF Bedlam. AT Ircachcd
the Stctlcl, and as the sky was overcast remain
ca there, instead of pushing on to Kuhn. The
18th, at b Il. m., we were roused and set off for
the Kuhn, to see the sun rise. About 150 persons
OF all ages and nations were there The view
was magnificent (See Baedeker for full descrin-
ton, am unequa) was more fortunate than
the poor fellow Murray quotes in his guide book.
"Nine weary up hill miles we sped,
The setting sun to see
Suky and grim he went to bed,
Sulky and grim went we.
"seven seepless hours we tsssed, and then
The rising beams to
Slky and grim we again,
su.ky and grim rose he"
Rncl, Ia hra,lr,st - A On -, -. -.
down the other side of the mountain to Immin-
see, pleasant walk Of two hours, where waited
two hours for the steamer to Zug. After wander
Ing round the quaint little place for half an hour
took the train for Lucerne. 1t had been my
plan to push on to the top of Pilatus, arriving
there hy evening. But alas! men are mortal, and
shoes also! | found that the good OF my sole
would oblige me to remain overnight in Lucerne
Not caring to take the two additional days, which
the ascent Of Pilatus would cost me, to be re-
wardcd only by the same view l had enjoyed al
ready from the Rigi, decided to cut hin alto
gether. so the morning of the 10Th took the
boat iof.Alpnach and thence Diligence over the
Brunig Pass to Brienz could only get a place
inside the Diligence, but a young Englishman
and |, at an expense OF few francs, got an ex-
change into an open carriage and had in conse-
quence a pleasant, comfortable ride.
After the st. Gothard and Spugen, the Brunig
does not impress one with grandeur, but there
aro,nany spots of rare and quiet beauty TO repay
the traveller for the journey.
Reaching Brienz ut Z, the steamer took us to
the Giessbach Landing, and fifteen minutes
climb to the Hotel and Falls, had intended go
ing on to-day to the Falls of Handeck, on foot en-
route for the Grimsel Pass and Rhonc Glacier,
but Eureka! find here just the place haye
been wishing tor, The past month, to lay up and
rest my weary eyes and brain from the actual
labor Of sightseeing. This is Elysum! Why
is it no one says anything about ii? never
heard a returned European traveller mention il,
and Bacdeker, my trusty Mentor, hardly gives il
word en- passant wish | could describe to
you place that to my mind, is worth the voy-
age to Europe In itself, even ii the voyage cover
weeks time, and the voyager too weak after it,
making sir. Crhis is goak y
In a little notch in the hills around Lake Brienz,
400 feet above the Lake, is plateau, partly level
and partly rolling On the right hand, the hills
rise above this 400 feet more, one mass of dark
pine tree, the summit crowned with a lovely
summer house, reached by path through the
woods. Behind, the hills slope away more grad
ualy, also thicky clothed with pines.
On the left hand, they rise almost perpendicu,
larly some lC0 feet, still clothed with verdure-
and think with trees, and right down the face of
this precipice the Fall plunges, in seven different
cascades, each more lovely than the other, send,
lng clouds OF spray into the air, in which rainbow
after rainbow, dances up and down the hill. The
grand hotel is far back on the plateau nearly out
uf Siplt of the Fall hut hpu,red fnr and obtain