- ALETSCH GLACIER, THE
- the largest of the glaciers of the Alps, which descends round the south of the Jungfrau into the valley of the Upper Rhône.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
ALETSCH GLACIER, THE
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