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Bummer traveller in the A lps leaves Laasaime, on Lake Geneva, on a slow train and goes up the valley of the Rhone, reaching Visp in four or five hours. The river Visp here Bows into the Rhone. Viap is the name of the parish in which the author of this autobiographywas horn. It is a parish in the canton of Valais. In the autohiography the canton is spelled Walless, and the modern spelling I b Wallis. It includes the valley of the Rhone from the upper end of Lake Geneva to its source in the Rhone glacier. Our traveller, who is supposed to make a journey from Lausanne to Zermatt, leaves Visp on the hridle road going up the river, and in a couple of hours arrives at Stalden, where the river divides into two branches, one going to the eastward of a spur of the Monte Rosa mountains, the highest of which rises nearly to the height of fifteen thousand feet, Monte Rosa itself reaching the height of 15,217 feet. This fork or branch is called the Saaser Visp from its chief village of Saas.
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