string of pack-animals. They halt at the lower pastures, and then as the summer advances, follow the retreating snows upward to constantly higher mead OWS. The groups of huts at various elevations are the temporary abiding places and storm-refuges of both men and animals. These châlets picturesquely dotted about on the mountain slopes give a pleasant change to the view. Railways are everywhere in this lovely region, thus easing the toils of the tourist-curving through the valleys, crossing high bridges over the torrents and going into dark tunnels, while the steep mountain sides are scaled by rack-and-pinion lines of daring construction. Up to the top of the Schynige Platte the visitor is thus lifted, to an elevation of over sixty-five hundred feet to enjoy an admirable view of the entire Oberland range. Another route penetrates the Lauterbrunnen Vale almost to the base of the towering Jungfrau, coming to the Lauterbrunnen village, about eight miles from Interlaken, deep down in a narrow rocky valley through which the rapid Lütschine rushes, and where the sun's rays do not penetrate until very late in the morning. Here are springs and streams everywhere, and hence its name which means "nothing but springs." It is great in wet weather, when all the waters are running, and its best known cataract is the Staubbach, the "spraybrook," this famous stream coming down a vertical. wall of limestone almost one thousand feet high, in a single leap from a jutting rock, most of the water being converted into spray during the descent, so that it resembles a silver veil blown by the winds, or as the poet says, it falls "like a downward smoke, slow-dropping veil of thinnest lawn." Far over the village on the one hand rises the snowy summit of the Jungfrau, behind a base of huge rocky precipices, while on the other side is the ponderous form of the Breithorn. High above the western side of this deep valley at an elevation of about fifty-four hundred feet, is the hamlet of Mürren, built on a terrace, up to which the visitor mounts by a cable and electric railway. From here and the adjacent more elevated summit of the Allmendhubel there is a famous view across the intervening vale of the entire Jungfrau range, and its vast expanse of snow-covered peaks and extensive glaciers. THE JUNGFRAU AND HER ATTENDANTS. The Queen of the Bernese mountains, the Jungfrau, rises 13,670 feet. The adjoining Mönch is 13,465 feet high and the more distant pyramid of the Eiger, projecting like a bastion from the main chain, 13,040 feet. On the other side the Wetterhorn rises 12,150 feet, the Mittlehorn, 12,165 feet, the Rosenhorn 12,110 feet, and the Berglistock, 12,000 feet. Adjacent are the Schreckhorn, rising 13,385 feet, and the highest of all these Bernese Alps, the Finsteraarhorn, its summit elevated 14,025 feet. A galaxy of attendant summits surrounds them, and vast gla |