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[[underlined]] August 2, 1914 - Sunday [[/underlined]]

We are at Thun. The male help is all gone excepting one young German who expects to go home. The manager had to do the cooking himself. He declares that he will keep us as long as he is permitted to do so, that he will not increase prices, but that he cannot guarantee the continued quality of meals. He says we must eat what he does. He also cashed Dr. Jackson's travelers check. He certainly acted on the square.
The sky is overcast and the day somewhat threatening. We started out at about 9:30 a.m. towards the mountains. We walked past Reutigen to Wimmis. Before reaching Reutigen I took photo 27. Before coming to the point where I took this photo we followed the road which here leads along the deep charm of a rushing mountain stream. The view of the

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snow-covered Alps through a cleft in the mountains was here beautiful. Indeed we have had many views and glimpses of the great chain of ice-covered mountains in the direction of Jungfrau.
We found cherries along the road almost everywhere, - planted trees.
We passed the base of the mountain ^[[insertion]] (2) [[/insertion]] which is at the end of the chain in which the Stockhorn is located. Here I collected land shells on moist ledges, and also in a more open space among leaves and sticks. (See the two sets.)
Near Wimmis we took the longer road around by way of the bridge at the dam, and after crossing I collected land shells on the rocky bank along the road leading to Wimmis, as the base of the forest-covered (spruce) lower mountain between the above mountain z, and Mt. Niesen.
The view up stream from the dam is very