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INTERLAKEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 693 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INTERLAKEN , a Swiss See also:

town (1864 ft.) in the See also:canton of Berne, situated on the See also:flat See also:plain (BOdeli) between the lakes of See also:Brienz (E.) and of See also:Thun (W.), and connected by steamer, as well as by railway (171 m.) with the town of Thun. It is built on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Aar, and See also:grew up around the religious See also:house of See also:Austin Canons, founded about 1130 and suppressed in 1528. In the surviving buildings of the See also:convent religious services (See also:Anglican, Scottish Presbyterian and See also:French See also:Protestant) are now held, while the more See also:modern See also:castle is occupied by offices of the Cantonal See also:Government. The See also:fine and well-shaded See also:avenue called the Hoheweg runs through the See also:main portion of the town, and is lined on the See also:north See also:side by a See also:succession of huge hotels and the large Kursaal. Interlaken is much frequented in summer, partly because of the glorious view of the See also:Jungfrau (13,669 ft.) which it commands to the See also:south, and partly because it is the best starting-point for many excursions, as. to Schynige See also:Platte, Lauterbrunnen and See also:Grindelwald. The lines serving these places all start from the eastern railway station (that from Thun reaches the western or main railway station), whence steamers depart for the Giessbach Falls, Brienz and See also:Meiringen, on the way to See also:Lucerne or to the Grimsel Pass. In 1900 the See also:population of Interlaken was 2962 (mainly Protestant and See also:German-speaking). Opposite Interlaken, and on the right bank of the Aar is Unterseen (in 1900, 2607 inhabitants), which was built in 1280 by Berthol.d von Eschenbach. See Fontes rerum Bernensium (See also:original documents up to 1366) (8 vols., Berne, 1883–1903) ; See also:Die Regesten See also:des Klosters zu Interlaken (See also:Coire, 1849) ; E. Tatarinoff, Die Entwickelung der Probstei Interlaken See also:im XIII. Jahrhundert (See also:Schaffhausen, 1892). (W.

A. B. C.) has no concern. This word, with the verbal See also:

form " to interlope," first appears at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th the See also:line. In this way Michelson obtained important See also:information See also:century In connexion with the interference of unauthorized as to the constitution of the approximately homogeneous lines I persons in the trading See also:monopoly of the See also:Russia See also:Company and obtained from See also:electrical See also:discharge through attenuated metallic later of the See also:East See also:India Company. The New See also:English See also:Dictionary vapours. Especially valuable is the vacuum See also:tube containing notes from H. See also:Lane (1590), See also:Hakluyt's Voyages, " From those See also:cadmium. The red line proved itself to be single and narrow in g a high degree, and the See also:green line was not far behind. Parts the Muscovites were furnished out of Dutchland by But although in Michelson's hands the apparatus has done ex- enterlopers with all arts and artificers and had few or none cellent spectroscopic See also:work, it is not without its weak points. A See also:good See also:deal of labour is required to interpret the visibility curves, and in some cases the indications are actually ambiguous. For instance, it is usually impossible to tell on which side of the See also:principal component a feebler See also:companion lies.

It would seem that for spectroscopic purposes this apparatus must yield to that of Fabry and Perot, in which multiple reflections are utilized; this is a spectroscope in the literal sense, inasmuch as the constitution of a spectrum line is seen by See also:

simple inspection.

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