A glance at some of the beauties and sublimities of Switzerland: with excursive remarks on the various objects | Murray, John, 1786?-1851

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Introduction — Geneva — Excursion to the Valley of Chamouni — Montanvert and the Mer de Glace 1 CHAPTER II. Lausanne and its Environs — Paragreles — Chilon - 40 CHAPTER III. Second visit to Chamouni — Fall of Chede — Passage by the Col de Balmeto the Vallais 74 CHAPTER IV. Martigny — The Catastrophe of 1818 — The Great St Bernard, and Hospice 94 CHAPTER V. Brieg — The Vallais — Passage of the Simplon into Italy — The Lago Maggiore and its Isles — Arona 117 CHAPTER VI. Milan — Retour via Como — Tourtemagne and Cascade — Sion — Goitures 140 CHAPTER VII. Bex and its Salines — Geneva revisited — Sunday — Fete d'Eau — Y verdun — Neufchatel - - 166 CHAPTER VIII. Berne — Fellenberg and Hofwyl — Hindlehank — Thun and its Lake — Unterseen — Lauterbrunnen and the Cascade of Staubach — Grindelwald — The Glaciers 190 CHAPTER IX. Lake of Brientz — Cascade of Giesbach — Chanteuses, — The Alpine Horn — The Passage of the Brunig — The Valley of Samen — Stantz — Lac des Quatre Cantons — The Three Fountains — TelTs Chapel — Schwitz — The Lake of Lowertz - - 216 CHAPTER X. Goldau and the ruin of the Rossberg — The Rhigi — Sublime Panorama as seen from the Rhigi Culm — Lucerne 239 CHAPTER XI. Zug — Zurich — Basle on the Rhine — Conclusion - 266 Digitized by Google.
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