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National Geographic : 1925 Jul
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Rhl)ISC()\OV ING Ti'll RHINE rnotograpn Dy Au Astra-Aero AN AIRPLANE VIEW OF ANDERMATT The white ribbon which meanders up the mountain slope is the road leading to the Oberalp Pass, 2,ooo feet above the Swiss town. Under the sky's burning blue, with but terflies hovering over daisies along a road side a-shimmer with warmth, we toiled upward by zigzag ways along the base of that great snow mountain, the Badus, to where, at 6,720 feet, we gained the sum mit of the Oberalp Pass. A few miles beyond and 2,000 feet be low the pass lay a great green valley, the Urseren Thal, centered by what resem bled at our altitude a cluster of bird houses. It was the town of Andermatt (see above). And at the Urseren Thal's opposite end rose another great snow mountain, facing the Badus at our end of the valley. Surely we felt that we were standing on the top of Europe; for we knew that from the mountain beyond the Urseren Thal the beginnings of the Rhone were descending, to swell southward to the Mediterranean; and, rising out of a little green lake on the farther shoulder of the Badus, was the glistening thread that we now beheld dropping into the Vorder Rhine's chasm, on its long journey to the North Sea. "listen !" Through the intense stillness there came to us the faint, shrill sound of rush ing water. It was singing to itself in its snow cradle-the infant Rhine ! 1s9
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