Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-09-25
SWITZERLAND. TIER
LAKES AND ALPS.
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needed but human tread to carry all
crashing to oblivion. Well. we are not
going to protract this with any wonder
full tale. Suffice it to say that we went
as long and as far as our guides would
advise land maybe little farther). but
that was several hundred feet below
Jungfrau's bald head. We were not
sorry of this when, some days later, the
Paris edition of the New York Herald
told of young Austrian and guide lost
over a Jungfrau pfecipice, and four
Germans rescued after two days priva-
ton and want by several guides. not
yet on the summit of their goal. The
| mountain is not so hazardous at some
seasons as now when the ice is rotting.
We might refer our readers to scien-
tific works for description of glac-
Ter, more accurate and fulsome than
here given, but in general way this
one we hope may be readily grasped. A
glacier is mass of onetime snow,
year in and year out, century after
| century the surface melting and trick
ling to the under crusts and there freez-
ing, until all but the immediate surface
becomes an iceberg on land. Picture
mountain range with ridge here and
one there starting near the SUBMITS and
the valley between these two ridges
deepening and widening as the ridges
traverse downward. This gorge, be-
tween the ridges, fills with snow. con-
geals and becomes ice, until from one
ridge is a level across to the other. A
peak with burrows running downward
would In this case be almost regular
around, like an inverted spinning top.
but its regularity is created by snow
and ice filling in the seams. These
bodies of ice reach down for miles until
the melting line is reached, and there
they cease. If there were no expan-
sion and contraction, no freezing and
thawing going on, no changes of
season or temperature. the glacier would
remain fast where moulded in his ra-
vine OF a valley. But the reverse is
true, and hence the miles of ice, some
times mile in depth is working imper-
ceptibly within itself, and as it does so
gravity gets in its work and down the
hill the billions of tons steadily Green.
1t may move only a fraction of an inch
as a body year, it may move several
feet or, as in few cases in history, it
may take a sudden slide and come
down into the valley miles below, bring
ing mountain cliff and all things offering
resistance. We know nothing but the
great expanse of mid-ocean that offers
so sublime spectacle or so overawing
vision as the miles of glacier field
upon first sight. 1t is not all smooth
surface by any means. Each glacier has
its miniature mountains in ice lump and
its wales, its canons. and chasms, down
which you may hear the rushing of
waters far below. Ithas its hills, and un-
der the ice mounds may be found caves
OF stalactite ceilings. You can play
SNOWFALL in some of its inclininp fields
and you can roll your SNOWFALL down
until it becomes glistening boulder
lost to sight But enough of feeble.
attempt to picture one ofnature's might
lest compositions.
Our return was without moment. ex-
cept that We were chilled. wet and with
feet. shoes and clothes torn. We stop
ped at hating place downward long
enough to gather sprigs Of the plucky
little edelweiss, the bravest foliage
known to man, to take few kodak
shots.and bundle up the skin of chamois
recently shot by our guides.
From Interlocken to Brienz Is the
length of lake Brienz, and from there
to Luzern is a few hours by rail. Here
we find the cult, money and extrava-
gance of the world tourist in the highest
degree. Another beautiful lake Lake
Luzern-a city circling both banks of
one end, the water like pearls and anne
thysts crushed and molten, wild ducks
undisturbed and fed by man upon its
placid bosom-all seemed like fairy
dream. Here we spend a couple of
days, poking here and prodding there.
to take in the history of the spot. see
where Tell jumped into his boat after
Staying Gessler and gained the noun
tain passes. and so on. Steamer takes
US from Luzern to the other end of the
lake to Fluelen, and from there we take
train for Italy. In due course st.
Gothard tunnel 70 miles long) is ira
versed, Chiasso is reached, the Alps are
behind US and sunny Italy is ours-for
week or two. at any rate; for no one
goes there without paying fully for all
he gets.
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