. Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers. The most conspicuous mountainsare: E. the Oetzthaler Ferner and Ortlerspitz; the Ada-mello-group : S. , in the immediate vicinity, the huge Bernina-chain with its lakes, to the 1. of the Bernina the little blue lakeof La Pischa; Monte Rosa and the Matterhorn (to the the latter, Mont Blanc?); W. the Bernese Alps; and finallythe lofty and precipitous chain stretching from the Julier to theSilvretta, with five peaks (Piz Julier, Plz Ot, Piz Uertsch, PizKesch, and Piz Linard) exceeding 1
. Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers. The most conspicuous mountainsare: E. the Oetzthaler Ferner and Ortlerspitz; the Ada-mello-group : S. , in the immediate vicinity, the huge Bernina-chain with its lakes, to the 1. of the Bernina the little blue lakeof La Pischa; Monte Rosa and the Matterhorn (to the the latter, Mont Blanc?); W. the Bernese Alps; and finallythe lofty and precipitous chain stretching from the Julier to theSilvretta, with five peaks (Piz Julier, Plz Ot, Piz Uertsch, PizKesch, and Piz Linard) exceeding 10,000 in height. Piz Lan-guard is a rich field for the botanist; the beautiful Edelweissis also occasionally found. — Experienced mountaineers maydescend by La Pischa into the Vat da Fain (p. 334), and returnto Pontresina by the Bernina road, an expedition (10—12 hrs.,guide 10 fr.) more interesting to the botanist and mineralogistthan to the ordinary traveller. In crossing into the Yal da Fain,the waterfall descending from the lakes higher up must be leftseveral hundred paces to the CUICICI III a du .*ix Xciiiciii :,tun Engadine. MORTERATSCH GLACIER. 83. Route. 333 Ascent of the Muottas (2/9 hrs.: jruide n fr.). see p. SiLvaplana by the Ba< o/ iSi. Moritz, see p. 328. By the*Bernma Road to the Hospice p. 339, or to the Griim Alp p. 340. Another interesting excursion is that to the Morteratsch Gla-cier (guide unnecessary), ly^ hr. S. of Pontresina, below theBernina road fp. 339). About 10 min. from the last house of Pont-resina, near a saw-mill, is a beautiful cascade which issues fromthe Languard valley. The new road is quitted 8 min. fartherfor the old. which is also quitted after 40 min. more, at the pointwhere the ascent commences. Here, near a rounded rocky emi-nence (the ?Platten^, the path diverges to the r. passing the(12 min.) beautiful *Falls of the Bernina brook, which is preci-pitated over huge masses of rock (chalet with refreshments).A new bri
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