INTERLAKEN

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INTERLAKEN , a Swiss town (1864 ft.) in the

canton

of Berne, situated on the flat plain (BOdeli) between the lakes of Brienz (E.) and of

Thun

THUN (Fr. Thoune)
THUN, LAKE OF

(W.), and connected by steamer, as well as by railway (171 m.) with the town of

Thun

THUN (Fr. Thoune)
THUN, LAKE OF

. It is built on the left bank of the Aar, and grew up around the religious

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Austin Canons, founded about 1130 and suppressed in 1528. In the surviving buildings of the convent religious services (Anglican, Scottish Presbyterian and French

Protestant

PROTESTANT

) are now held, while the more modern castle is occupied by offices of the Cantonal Government. The fine and well-shaded avenue called the Hoheweg runs through the main portion of the town, and is lined on the north side by a succession of huge hotels and the large Kursaal. Interlaken is much frequented in summer, partly because of the glorious view of the Jungfrau (13,669 ft.) which it commands to the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

, and partly because it is the best starting-point for many excursions, as. to Schynige Platte, Lauterbrunnen and 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 Meiringen, on the way to Lucerne or to the Grimsel Pass. In 1900 the population of Interlaken was 2962 (mainly

Protestant

PROTESTANT

and 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 (

original

ORIGINAL

documents up to 1366) (8 vols., Berne, 18831903) ; Die Regesten des Klosters zu Interlaken (

Coire

COIRE (Ger. Chur or Cur, Ital. Coira, Lat. Curia Raetorum, Romonsch Cuera)

, 1849) ; E. Tatarinoff, Die Entwickelung der Probstei Interlaken im XIII. Jahrhundert (Schaffhausen, 1892). (W. A. B. C.)
has no concern. This word, with the verbal form " to interlope,"
first appears at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th
the line. In this way Michelson obtained important information century In connexion with the interference of unauthorized
as to the constitution of the approximately homogeneous lines I persons in the trading monopoly of the Russia Company and
obtained from electrical discharge through attenuated metallic later of the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

India Company. The New English Dictionary
vapours. Especially valuable is the vacuum tube containing notes from H. Lane (1590), Hakluyt's Voyages, " From those
cadmium. The red line proved itself to be single and narrow in g a high degree, and the 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

work

WORK

, it is not without its weak points. A
good 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 principal component a feebler 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 simple inspection. (R.)

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