The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-14


city of Lucerne. The principal lion of
this city is huge sleeping lion, twenty
five feet long, scarved out of the solid rock
in the face of precipice. A niche five
feet deep contains the monster, which
serves as O. monument to commemorate
the fall Of military officers, whose names
are inscribed on the rock below
But the mountains and small rural vii
lagos engEoss the travellers attention
here, more than the cities, and to reach
them, he must leave the railways, and
travel by diligence, post coach, on horse
back or on foot. Wherever practicable,
excellent macadamized roads are con
structed, which are thronged at this sea-
son with vehicles Of all descriptions. The
large diligences carry twenty five passen-
gers and ordinary luggage, ard with six
horses (three abreast,) make good time.
At q country village hotel where we
stopped che day to dine. no less than
seVenty-iye were present at the table
dhote, and we were informed that the day
previous upwards of three hundred per
sons dined at the three or four small ho-
tells in the hamlet, two-thirds of them
English and American With the excep-
ton of an occasional snob, who stares at
everybody except an aristocrat with 8
"whO-in thed-lare yOu," air. English
tourists are polite and sociable, often pay.
ing Americans high compliments, and,
without assuming any national vanity,
we know the American character stands
high in Europe. We often think of the
advice of our friend Tom Gibbons, the
station agent, full blooded Irshman
Remember" said he, " that an American
who properly conducts himself, will be
as mach respected on the continent as
an Irishmar. Govern yourself accord
ipgly."
among the Alps are innumerable cas-
cadt varying in size from the little rivulct
to the large millstream. Among them is
one known as Giessbach, consisting of
seven distinct cataracts, making In all a
descent of ,1O0 feet, which attract MI.
merous visitors, often more than the four
story hotel can accommodate. At night
the cascades are illuminated by means of
!, Bengal lights. The effect very striking
/, On the ringing of the bell visitors be.
take themselves to the terrace in front Of
the hotel, the signal is given by the dis
charge of a rocket, and the whole falls are
, suddenly bathed IN a food of light,
changing from white to red, and green,
but of short duration. The crowd clap
, their hands, shout, and retire, paying o
, franc and half for their entertainment.
"Short visits and more of them," was our
motto. We moved On TO make the pas
sage of a well known mountain pass from
Grlnderwald to Lauterbrunen, near the
8 noted Jungfrau, nearly $4,000 feet high
and visit the glaciers in the vicinity OF
the former place. They consist of huge
masses Of ice, several miles in extent, IN
the mountain gorges, and not lying on the
! mountain sides, as many enormously sup
pse. They are properly huge streams of ice,
moving sometimes but few inches for
several days and often not at ALL From
the base of the Mer de Glaze issued a re-
specially sized millstream, with all the
impetucsity Of q mountain torrent, and
on the heights above workmen were cut
ting ice for use of the hotels. The mass
IS inaccessible from the lower end, and to
reach the surface circuitous path must
be traversed mile in length. A grotto
one hundred feet in length, has been tun-
neled into the ice, which visitors can en-
ter for half franc and pay another half
franc to the women who sing and play
the dulcimer at the extremity. It is de
cidedly cooling to enter such tunnel in
the middle of August. Not satisfied with
so little exploration of a glacier, our
party determined to scale the mountains
in an attempt to reach the upper end. BY
clamberlng up the rugged sleeps two
hours we reach q beaten path, unknown
to US before, which conducted us Ito the
top of frightful precipice, which we de-
scend by means of ladders to the bed of
the glacier. The surface was rough and
billy, with gulches thirty to forty feet
deep. It's breadth was more than half
mile and its length more than half an
hours walk. Stones and gravel from the
mountain sides, and even rocks of many
tons weight, covered large part of its
surface, and crevices from q few inches
to ten or twelve feet in width intersected
| it in all directions t 5e
The daylight being far spent our stay
was necessarily shorter than we wished,
At six o'clock we found ourself alone at
the upper extrsmity with our companions
nowhere to be seen. Two or three hours
were required to descend the mountain to
our hotel, over path not easily traversed
without guide in the dark, except at
some hazard. We turned our steps home |