Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-02
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Stopping ct Aarma't to e'eSTerh up
to- tbe top CT ;ho rdiao Lit mountain,
the Rfcl-where We could see the .
hote, ncrcled, as it were, arong the
clouds, l learned tLg: they co1id give
me bad on tho hJor. 81 mounted
again and had long and weary ride I!
partly after dark, np through lie pine
woods aud taea along horrible preci-
pices till we gained tho hotel, where
the good lady, 20 reward ne perhaps
for my good nature in seeming glad to
get even bed or the floor, presently
found nice room for me. l went 10
bed soou and slept soundiy under q
half feather bed, which was comfortable
enough in this Geld air. I woke this
morning to iinji u bright day. 1t WAS
glorious to look from our elevated posi-
ton ou tie riHg of snow-clad peaks
around rs as the sun brightly tonchetl
them. After breakfast, having lladc
the acquaintance Of al English clergy
man, great mountain lover, clG5bed
in and sot guide-a berGs;ciger- and
went up on the ridge fc9 thcusarl
feet above the hotel, On the south,
called the Golnergrat, whence We had
u veg, which has become famous
South OF u5 Was the beautiful Monte
Rosa covered almost entirely with SHOW,
and very little lover than Mount Blanc.
70 the right Of hat Was tha mou.itail
called the LyskamEl. then two peaks
called CASTOR and Poliux, then the
broad, white shoulder Of the Breiihofn.
Farther 10 the right Was the little Mnt-
tcrhorn. Then came snowy noun
tain gap called Mat,ergoch, then the
broad expaDse of the Theodple glacier
leading the eye around to tbs west,
where spraug up the triangular p! ramid
OF the isolated Ma.terhorn-moLsrcA OF
the circIs--followea in quick succession
as the gaze ran round to TIE north by
Dent Blanche Gabelhorn, Roth 0rn.
Weisshorp, Brnnechhorn and thU lis
chabel. The first and last beir, i!e
! hi9lest-over fourteen thousand t. 4.
Then we clambered down u deep o'.-
scent until We stoCd on the great Corner
glacier, Que Of tie grea:ost-the second
in Swi,zerland-which winds like IL
great white snake from Monte Rosa
down nearly TO Zermat., and which is
the only one l have seen that really
comes down into the valley, tie rest
ending high up these ravines and giving
place to torrents OF whitisb. muddy
water, which issue frcm the glaciar's
bottom and rush down most wildly to
the valleys. Tho Corner is the main
trunk into which empty five large gla
ciers at different points in its course.
The glacier ico is not pure and clear,
but Jumps of ice frozen together, ard
tie surface has whitish, rough ap-
pearsnce and IS easily walked over,
though fatiguipg from its urevenness.
having hills and hollows and great
crevices reaching down hundreds CT
feet. The surface is dirty. from dust
blown on it, and along the sides are
piles of stones, the laternal morciDes.
My friends and l had long canes.
like hoe handle, with iron spikes
in the bottom (called Aipenstocksl
and occasionally the guilo would give
us hand. We jumped over the crew
asses and pitched big stones down
them. Tnese were deep funnel shaped
hollows in the surface of the glacier,
and one of them, about fifty yards
across, was filled with clear ice water
The glacier is perhaps three quarters
of mile wide and is very high in the
middle. All about on it we're big rocks
and they all, when single, were poised
on ice, forming tables. while every lit
tie etone and piles of gravel were alway'
sunk in and lying at the bottom o.
, sometimes deep holes, filed with water
q Both things are made by the same
q cause, VIZ: the rocks get hot faster il
o the sunshine than ice. because they alb
, sorb heat better. Hence, if The rock il
n thin, it makes tie ice warmer than th'
g naked ice around, which thus mott
faster, and so hole is made. On tn,
I other hand, if the rock is very thicl
I the heat travels SO slowly through i
that it's bottom does not get warm il
n one day, so that it protects the ice un
der it, while the naked ice arount
gradually melts away and leaves tn
a stone on top of a column. Now thel
- there ought hero and there to be
d. rock neither too thick nor too thil
-, which would neither sink nor rise
o Such is the fact and saw some on th
o surface. We finally got round 20 til
=, side of the glacier again and reascsnde'
n the Gornergrat by different path an
80 came back TO the hotel. L. II. s.
in n. Y. Hone journal.
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= They HAD Just returned nome froL