reaching the baths of Rosenlaui, a footpath to the right leads to the glacier of Rosenlaui, so de

nominated from the extreme beauty of its roseate and azure colours. It lies between the great masses of the Wellhorn and Engelhörner ("Angels' peaks"), its fir-clad base, and its gigantic craggy frame, forming a most remarkable scene. In summer a torrent comes roaring down an almost fathomless rent in the mountain. We descend beside the torrent, which is impetuously plunging and foaming to take the leap of the Reichenbach, when suddenly the vale of Meyringen is disclosed far beneath us, with its villages and meadows, church

Alpbach is illuminated every evening during the season by the proprietor of the Hotel Sauvage.)

Meyringen, with its charming situation, good hotels, and English Church, is rapidly increasing in favour as a place of resort. The Swiss wood carvings made here are very fine.

From Meyringen, Brienz may be reached twice daily by diligence; distance, 9 miles. See page 452.

ROUTE 112.

the Alpbach cascade pouring over the crags on the other side. From this point the descent into the valley is nearly 2000 feet, rugged and precipitous; and from nearly this level the Reichenbach torrent takes its great leap down a gorge to the left of the path, making the celebrated Reichenbach Falls. Afterwards, by a succession of leaps, it falls down into the valley, where it joins the Aar. (The Reichenbach Falls are illuminated every evening during the season by the proprietor of the Hotel Reichenbach.)

About a mile and a half from the last fall, and on the right bank of the Aar, is MEYRINGEN (Hotels: see "HOTEL LIST.") The views of the Reichenbach Falls, the falls of the Alpbach, the Engelhörner, the snow-clad Wetterhorn, and the Rosenlaui glacier, from the village, are very charming. The Hasli Vale, of which Meyringen is the capital, is reckoned a model of an Alpine valley. The climate is soft; the view includes numberless hamlets, waterfalls, and hills covered with verdure, glaciers, and snow-clad mountains. (The fall of the

SEL HOSPICE AND THE
RHONE GLACIER.

Time required, 10 hours; horse from Meyringen to Grimsel, 25 francs; to the Rhone Glacier, 32 francs; Andermatt, 40 francs.

cataract is then seen from below. This fall is considered the finest in Switzerland, and in point of impetuosity and quantity of water resembles Schaffhausen; its height is about two hundred feet. The body of the water is very great during the summer, when the snow from the mount tains and the glaciers has been melted. At the same spot is seen the stream of the Erlenbach, running nearly at a right angle with the Aar; it falls as if in humble rivalry with its more noble associate, and throws its sheet of water into that of the Aar, long before the latter reaches the ground, thus producing a beautiful effect.

A walk of 2 hours brings us to the Hospice of the Grimsel, which stands about 800 feet below the summit of the Pass. It is a rough, strong rock building, and is now used as an inn. It is much thronged with tourists in summer. Its entourage is the most dreary in all Switzerland. On all sides and above, it is frowned by shapeless upon mountains, covered with ice and

snow.

upon the view of the glacier of the Rhone, very far below; a grand object, with the furious Rhone issuing from the ice, and then leaping and dashing through the valley. The glacier is a stupendous mass of ice, extending clear across the valley, propped against an overhanging mountain (the Gallenstock), with snowy peaks towering to the right and left. It is 15 miles in length, imbedded between fine mountains, the highest of which, the Dammastock, is 11,920 ft. high. From this glacier issues the river Rhone which, after a course of nearly 500 miles, empties itself into the Mediterranean.

(For description of the FURCA PASS, see Route 113.)

ROUTE 113.

GOESCHENEN TO THE
RHONE
AND
GLACIER
BRIEG, BY THE FURCA

of another thousand.

The distance from the Hospice to the Rhone glacier is about six miles. Three-quarters of an hour's walking up a tolerable path brings us to the top of the pass, where, at a height of 8400 feet above the sea level, the way skirts the left margin of a little, dark, still lake, into which the bodies of French and Austrian soldiers, killed in the skirmish which took place here in 1799, were thrown. It therefore goes by the name of the "Lake of the dead."

Beyond the lake the road leads down a steep declivity. At a little distance we come suddenly

(Distance, to the Rhone Glacier, 21 miles. Diligence twice a day in 6 hours. Fare, 10 francs, coupe, 12 francs. From Goeschenen to Brieg the diligence goes once a day, stopping for dinner at the Rhone Glacier, time 12 hours. Fare, 20.65 francs, coupe, 25.15 francs.)

OESCHENEN, Andermatt, and Hospenthal are described in Route 108. the upper end of the latter village our route quits the St Gothard route, passes through the cheerless Urserenthal, and reaches, 24 miles, Zumdorf. Soon after we cross the Reuss,

THE BEAUTIFUL LAKE AND
ITS BORDERS,

Unattainable from any other hotel
at or near Geneva.

English and American Travellers
will find every convenience
and comfort.

UNEXCEPTIONAL ATTENDANCE,
and Moderate Charges.

A Lift of the best construction conveys guests to each floor of the hotel.

GRAND HOTEL BEAU BEAU RIVAGE.

PROPRIETORS-MAYER AND KUNZ.