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RESCUE FROM A CREVASSE.

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RESCUE FROM A CREVASSE.

Mr. Huxley and myself had been staying for somedays at Grindelwald , hoping for steady weather, andlooking at times into the wild and noble regionwhich the Shreckhom, the Wetterhom, the Viescher-homer, and the Eiger feed with eternal snows. Wehad scanned the buttresses of the Jungfrau with aview to forcing a passage between the Jungfrau andthe Monk from the Wengem Alp to the Aletsch glacier. The weather for a time kept hopes andfears alternately afloat, but finally it declared againstus; so we moved with the unelastic tread of beatensoldiers over the Great Sheideck, and up the Valeof Hasli to the Grimsel . We crossed the passwhose planed and polished rocks had long ago at-tracted the attention of Sir John Leslie, though thesolution which he then offered ignored the ancientglacier which we now know to have been the planingtool employed. On rounding an angle of the Mayen-wand, two travellers suddenly appeared in front ofus; they were Mr. (now Sir John) Lubbock and his