. The fascination of Switzerland. a rocky bar across the narrowcorner. Here is the Grimsel Hospice, and therocks high up on all sides show by their smoothrounded curves how they were worn by the hugeglacier of the past. No better spot than this canbe found in Switzerland to show what glacier actioncan accomplish. Low-lying rocks with roundedbacks are the roches moutonnees of the school-books, and show what imagination can do insuggesting their likeness to resting sheep. The top of the Grimsel Pass is only a short half-hours walk away, and then there is the wonderfulview over into the Rhone Val
. The fascination of Switzerland. a rocky bar across the narrowcorner. Here is the Grimsel Hospice, and therocks high up on all sides show by their smoothrounded curves how they were worn by the hugeglacier of the past. No better spot than this canbe found in Switzerland to show what glacier actioncan accomplish. Low-lying rocks with roundedbacks are the roches moutonnees of the school-books, and show what imagination can do insuggesting their likeness to resting sheep. The top of the Grimsel Pass is only a short half-hours walk away, and then there is the wonderfulview over into the Rhone Valley, with the Furkaroad running by the very edge of the glacierseracs, from which the modern Belvedere Hotel isliterally only a stones-throw. Below runs thesplendid Grimsel road, replacing the old bridle-path, and bearing the wear of hundreds every day. Over it dashes the four-horsed diligence—in fact, a cavalcade of dili-gences in busy times—carrying yourself and yourluggage and the post between Meiringen and80. LOOKING liOWN THE YOUNG KHONE VALLEY. raot ST OF SWITZERLAND carving of scenery Gletsch. This great road was only opened in1895, and the old path can still be seen betweenthe Hospice and the Handegg Falls, with its tinystone bridges over the Aar. The old track swungfrom side to side wherever foothold was easiest tofind, avoiding the great sweep of water-worn andglacier-worn granite which rose in smooth, steepwalls from the i*iver. But the smooth granite didnot trouble the Swiss engineers of twenty yearsago ; they blasted out huge fragments and gaveto their grateful successors a firm and widesecurity unknown before. For those who care for the quaint details ofscenery, there are plenty of pot-holes to be foundin the rocks. A fine large one can be seen with alittle scrambling from the bridge near the Kurz-entannlen Alp, and a scramble uphill will discloseanother one large enough to contain a growingtree. All these are part of the domain—asindeed is the
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