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we were upon the exact track of the avalanche, and then the search commenced. It had not continued twenty minutes when a cheer from one of the guides -Christian Michel of Grindelwald-announced the discovery of the watch. It had been brought to the surface in the manner surmised, and on examination seemed to be dry and uninjured. I noticed, moreover, that the position of the hands indicated that it had only run down beneath the snow. I wound it up, hardly hoping, however, to find it capable of responding. But it showed instant signs of animation. It had remained eighteen days in the avalanche, but the application of its key at once restored it to action, and it has gone with unvarying regularity ever since.

Mr. Hutchinson has published the following note of the accident in the Alpine Journal':

'As one of the party concerned in the accident on the Piz Morteratsch last July, I trust I shall not be thought presumptuous in bearing my testimony to the entire accuracy of Professor Tyndall's account. I can add no facts of any importance to those there mentioned, unless it be that we estimated the distance down which we were carried at fully 1,000 feet-a conclusion which, Mr. Tyndall tells me, was confirmed by his subsequent visit to the spot. The angle of the slope we did not measure, nor can I

give the time of our descent with any accuracy; it

seemed to me a lifetime. From the moment that the snow cracked, Jenni behaved with the greatest coolness and courage. But he ought not to have taken us down the ice-slope so late in the day-it was then nearly half-past two o'clock-and that after a warning word from Professor Tyndall and myself. Of Walter's conduct the less said the better; our opinion of his courage was not raised by this trial of it.'

[Until Mr. Gossett's letter reached me a few days ago I was not aware of the singular likeness between the loss of Bennen's watch and of my own.-April 1871.]

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THE GORGE OF PFEFFERS (SHOWING EROSIVE ACTION),

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