Chapter 2

Barometer--Boiling Thermometer--Barometer Soup--An Interesting Scientific Discovery--Crippling a Latinist--A Chaplain Injured--Short of Barkeepers--Digging a Mountain Cellar--A Young American Specimen--Somebody's Grandson--Arrival at Riffelberg Botel--Ascent of Gorner Grat--Faith in Thermometers--The Matterhorn