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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 20 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOTSCHEN PASS , or LoTSCHBERG, an easy See also:

glacier pass (8842 ft.) leading from Kandersteg in the Bernese Oberland to the Lotschen valley in the See also:Valais. It is a very old pass, first mentioned distinctly in 1352, but probably crossed previously by the Valaisans who colonized various parts of the Bernese Oberland. In 1384 and again in 1419 battles were fought on it between the Bernese and the Valaisans, while in 1698 a See also:mule path (of which traces still exist) was constructed on the Bernese slope,'though not continued beyond owing to the fear of the Valaisans that the Bernese would come over and alter their See also:religion. In 1906 the piercing of a See also:tunnel (82 m. See also:long) beneath this pass was begun, starting a little above Kandersteg and ending at Goppenstein near the mouth of the Lotschen valley. Subsidies were granted by both the See also:confederation and the See also:canton of See also:Bern. This pass is to be carefully distinguished from the Lotschenliicke (10,512 ft.), another easy glacier pass which leads from the See also:head of the Lotschen valley to the See also:Great Aletsch glacier. (W. A. B.

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