An edition of A glance at some of the beauties and sublimities of Switzerland: with excursive remarks on the various objects of interest, presented during a tour through its picturesque scenery
(1829)
A glance at some of the beauties and sublimities of Switzerland
with excursive remarks on the various objects of interest, presented during a tour through its picturesque scenery
by Murray, John
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A glance at some of the beauties and sublimities of Switzerland: with excursive remarks on the various objects of interest, presented during a tour through its picturesque scenery
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A glance at some of the beauties and sublimities of Switzerland: with excursive remarks on the various objects of interest, presented during a tour through its picturesque scenery
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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
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