[20] For further observations see p. [256].
[21] Phil. Mag. vol. xxiv. p. 169.
[23] I should estimate the level of the Lower Grindelwald glacier, at the point where it is usually entered upon to reach the Eismeer, to be nearly one hundred feet vertically lower in 1867 than it was in 1856. I am glad to find that the question of ‘Benchmarks’ to fix such changes of level is now before the Council of the British Association.
[24] Killed in 1869 upon the Schreckhorn.
[25] Art. X. of ‘Fragments of Science’ is devoted to the sky.
[26] ‘Glaciers of the Alps,’ p. 264.
[27] It will not be supposed that I here mean the stuffing or pampering of the body. The shortening of the supplies, or a good monkish fast at intervals, is often the best discipline for the body.
[28] See illustration at the end of this chapter.
[29] In 1869 I tried to get to the top of the Wetterhorn in a single day from Grindelwald, but the wildness of the storm and the bitterness of the cold drove Peter Baumann and me back, when we were within a quarter of an hour of the top. I was afterwards in the habit of taking to the Riffel See when heavy snow was falling. It was at the Bel Alp, however, that I found myself renewed.