Castle Of Chillon.

Castle Of Chillon.

The Dungeon Of Chillon.

The Dungeon Of Chillon.

The Matterhorn Exacted Speedy Vengeance.

The Matterhorn Exacted Speedy Vengeance.

Historic Waters.

Historic Waters.

Zermatt.

Zermatt.

Safe From Mountain Perils.

Safe From Mountain Perils.

Falls Of The Rhine, Schaffhausen.

Falls Of The Rhine, Schaffhausen.

As the successful party, consisting of four Englishmen and three guides, elated by their victory, were just beginning their descent, one of them slipped, knocking a guide completely off his feet and dragging his companions after him, since all were bound together by a rope. Four of them hung an instant there, head downward, between earth and heaven. The other three clung desperately to the icy crags, and would have rescued them, had not the rope between them broken. There was a fearful cry - a rush of falling bodies. Then Whymper and two guides found themselves clinging to the rocks, and looking into each other's haggard faces, pale as death. The others had fallen over the precipice - nearly four thousand feet - to the ice below!

The Fiend Of The Alps.

The Fiend Of The Alps.

Moonlight On The Matterhorn.

Moonlight On The Matterhorn.

Berne.

Berne.

"One moment stood they, as the angels stand, High in the stainless eminence of air; The next, they were not; - to their Fatherland Translated unaware!"

The Matterhorn.

The Matterhorn.

On my last evening at Zermatt, I lingered in the deepening twilight to say farewell to this unrivaled peak. At first its clear-cut silhouette stood forth against the sky, unutterably grand, while darkness shrouded its giant form. So overwhelming appeared its tapering height, that I no longer wondered at the belief of the peasants that the gate of Paradise was situated on its summit; because it seemed but a step thence to Heaven.

At last there came a change, for which I had been waiting with impatience. In the blue vault of heaven the full-orbed moon came forth to sheathe the Matterhorn in silver. In that refulgent light its icy edges looked like crystal ropes; and its sharp, glistening rocks resembled silver steps leading to the stupendous pinnacle above. Never, this side the shore of Eternity, do I expect to see a vision so sublime as that of moonlight on the Matterhorn. For from the gleaming parapets of this Alpine pyramid, not "forty centuries," but forty thousand ages look down on us as frivolous pygmies of a day. Yes, as I gazed on this illumined obelisk, rising from out its glittering sea of ice, to where - four thousand feet above -the moving stars flashed round its summit like resplendent gems, it seemed a fitting emblem of creative majesty - the scepter of Almighty God.

The Bernese Oberland.

The Bernese Oberland.

A Swiss Hero.

A Swiss Hero.

The Elgin Marbles In The British Museum.

The Elgin Marbles In The British Museum.