Titre

Les gorges de l'Aar - Suisse, canton de Berne

Datation

1901

Datation min.

1901

Datation max.

1901

Commentaire datation

Date du copyright

Auteur du cliché

Les gorges de l'Aar - Suisse, canton de Berne

Mention d’édition

Underwood & Underwood, Publishers

Editeur

Underwood & Underwood ,

Numéro dans la série

36-1771

Légende sur document

The wonderful gorge of the river Aare, Switzerland.

Commentaire légende

Imprimée sous l'image

Localisation

Lieu

Interlaken-Oberhasli

Architecture

Passerelle

Milieu - Environnement

Aar , Alpes , Gorge

Texte au recto

Underwood & Underwood, Publishers New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas Works and sudios Arlington, N.J. Westwood, N.J. Washington D.C. (36)-1771 The wonderful gorge of the river Aare, Switzerland. Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood

Verso inscrit

oui

Texte au verso

We are in central Switzerland near Meiringen and some eighteen miles or so east of Interlaken. The gorge as we see it now opens up-stream, to wards the southeast. That is the river Aare, of which we get just a glimpse, away down below. "This gorge is a quarter of a mile long and the river waters. confined within these narrow walls, tend to wear their track deeper and deeper as ages go by. The river, after it issues from this gorge, widens into a stream a bundred feet broad, rejoicing in its freedom like a wild creature let out of its cage. In some places these cliffs stand five hundred feet above the river bed. The waters that we may see away down be low have come from farther south near the head of the Rhone. Now the river is on its way to Lake Brienz and Interlaken; these very waters will encircle Berne and flow on to pour into the Rhine. E DI Here is another chapter of geologic history illus trated right before our eyes in this dusky gorge. You see those lichens, clustering thick on the wall of rock just opposite us at the right. Botanists say that certain kinds of lichens are the most primitive forms of vegetable organism known to live on land. Nobody can pretend to say just why these living things should begin to live gathering their substance from solid rock and atmospheric mois ture, digesting these raw materials and making them over into the organism of a plant, but so it is. These delicate crusts of grey and green and orange and brown gradually eat away the surface of rock masses, crumbling off bits here and bits there and leaving a roughened surface more readily splint ered by frosts and more efficaceously seraped by glaciers. The glacier is gigantic, the lichen is apparently insignificant; but between them the solid rocks get worn away as inevitably as a plank is worn down under the carpenter's plane." From Switzerland through the Stercoscope, by M. 8. Emery, with special keyed maps locating each successive standpoint; published by Under wood & Underwood. The Wonderful Gorge of the River Aare, Switzerland. La Merveilleuse Gorge de la Rivière Aare, Suisse. Die wundervolle Schlucht der Alare in der Schweiz. La admirable Garganta del Río Aare, Suisa. Det märkvärdiga Svalget i floden Aare, Schweiz. Вомѣчательный ократь в кки Аарь. Швейцарія.

Etat de conservation

bon

Support

Photographies collées sur carton

Dimensions

8,5 x 17,5 cm

Propriétaire

M. Magendie

Lieu de conservation

Lescar

Auteur de la numérisation

Philippe Chalons

Créateur du dépôt

CLEM

Date de dépôt

Juin 2021

Lot

LOT24_MAGENDIE

Livraison

LIVRAISON_09

Nom usuel

MAG5288

Titre

Les gorges de l'Aar - Suisse, canton de Berne

Date de création

1901

Légende

The wonderful gorge of the river Aare, Switzerland.

Région

Berne

Pays

Suisse

Fournisseur

CLEM - Archéovision

Auteur de la description

Fanny Arnaud