The regular Swiss round in three trips Author:Harry Jones Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III.—BIGHI KULM TO HOSPENTHAL. A Tourist writes:—" The sunrise at the Eighi is the event of the day." Well, I suppose it is; at any rate, the day would look u... more »ncommonly foolish without it, at the Kighi and elsewhere. However, our tourist is right. The presence of the sun at the Eighi is thought less of than his approach; the twilight is preferred to the light. I believe there are people who have never seen the sun rise except from the Eighi, who have no clear idea of what it is like anywhere else, who write enthusiastically in their journals about the rays which "herald his advent" there, as if the landlord who gave so large a price for the site of his inn had made some arrangements with them too, when he was about it. Would you believe it, my dear sluggard, that sunrise is beautiful in many places; that although there may be no snow- draped Jungfrau to blush as she wakes, there are often fleecy piles of clouds which redden in the east ? Do you know that the " rays " shoot straight up amid them like silent rockets, only swifter, straighter, higher, till they strike against the skies? Do you know that there is a grand and glorious spectacle every summer morning going triumphantly on, while your lazy head is sunk inthe suffocating pillow ? There is indeed, my dear sluggard, a battle between light and darkness— night and day—the two great giants who evermore chase each other over the wheeling globe, striding from peak to peak, skirting the mountain- tops, and shooting across the valleys in their endless contest Well, we got up to see them wrestle on the top of the Eighi. Day beat, night retired altogether from the field for a time. The scene was indeed a grand one. ' Eesolved to defy disappointment, we had gone to bed, expecting the next morning to be cloudy. It very frequently is,...« less