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Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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look-ing its best, albeit somewhat crowded with tourists,as was the railway which, in a few hours, transfersthe traveller to the sea of ice ten thousand feetabove. The journey from Scheidegg was new to us,as the latest addition to the railway now pierces theEiger itself, and we resolved to view this latest pieceof engineering skill. At Lauterbrunnen, which the Staubbach fallchiefly reaches in the form of spray, commences therack-and-cog-railway to Scheidegg, where electricitysupplants steam, and passes to the Eiger station.Here the glacier pours down from the snow heights,amidst a scene of the wildest magnificence. Thecarriages were crowded, and it was with diflScultythat we could at last obtain places by standing inthe little coupe reserved to the brake-man at thecommencement of the train. But so great is the overpowering grandeur of thescene that one forgets the throng amidst natureswonders. The Icemere station is a gallery cut inthe face of the rock, through which one gazes at a22
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\VK TOOK A LAST I.DOK AT (; JilX I ilJ.W A 1.1» A DASH FOR THE ALPS scene of snow and ice above and below. It is exactlylike looking through an eye of the mountain intoanother world ; a world of stillness, so intense as tobe felt; of desolation, so pronounced that a greatawe creeps into the soul. The cold was piercing,and we were glad to avail ourselves of the highestrestaurant in Europe ere we descended. At Schei-degg we changed into the carriage bound forGrindelwald, where I had ordered Dennis to meetus with Mercedes, and where, to our joy, we foundhim. Thankfully we changed into the roomy car,speeding down the beautiful Lutchenthall as thefirst shades of evening were falling. The road runsbetween the railway and the rushing stream ; wetook a last look at Grindelwald in the distance,capped by the massive peaks of the Jungfrau, theEiger, and the Wetterhorn. Another minute andwe were passing through the defile of the Ortwird,emerging at the foot of the Schynige Platte, andpresently r

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