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The distance of the Sun has been determined by several different methods the principles of which do not concern us here, but they agree in giving the mean distance of the Sun as a little less than 93,000,000 miles; that is to say, it would require 11,720 worlds as large as our own to be put side by side in order to bridge the chasm between the two.

Between Meyringen and Hof, the vale of Hasli is crossed by a transverse ridge called the Kirchet, and the barrier is at one place split through, forming a deep chasm with vertical sides through which plunges the river Aar.

The chasm is called the Finsteraarschlucht, and by the ready hypothesis of an earthquake its formation has been explained.

The Aar for a time babbled in the distance, until, on turning a corner, its voice was suddenly quenched by the louder music of the Urbach, rendered mellow and voluminous by the resonance of the chasm into which the torrent leaped.

Its steepness was greater than that of a cathedral roof, while below us, and within a few yards of us, was a chasm into which it would be certain death to fall.

Looking right or left, a chasm was always discovered in these cases, and the cautious guide sounded the snow, lest the fissure should have prolonged itself underneath so as to cross our track.

We all afterwards shot the chasm in this pleasant way.

By jumping into the chasm he thought a strain might be put upon the rope sufficient to check the motion.

I had heard it stated that the Via Mala was a striking illustration of the fissure theory-that the profound chasm thus named, and through which the[220] Hinter-Rhein now flows, could be nothing else than a crack in the earth’s crust.

It is stated in the guide-books that the river, which usually runs along the bottom of the gorge, has been known almost to fill it during violent thunderstorms;[221] and it may be urged that the marks of erosion which the sides of the chasm exhibit are due to those occasional floods.

A rock capable of being thus dissolved will expose a smooth surface after the water has quitted it; and in the case of the Via Mala it is the polish of the surfaces, and also the curved hollows scooped in the sides of the gorge, which assure us that the chasm has been the work of the river.

The river from the Morteratsch glacier rushes through a deep and narrow chasm which is spanned at one place by a stone bridge.

Here the traveller passes along the side of the chasm midway between top and bottom.

The aspect of this smaller chasm from its bottom to its top proves to demonstration that water had in former ages worked there as a navigator.

But it was regarding the sides of the great chasm that I needed instruction, and from its edge I could see nothing to satisfy me.

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