Chapter XIV: fearfuly

fearfully

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Letters from Switzerland.

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BY
SAMUEL IRENÆUS PRIME,

AUTHOR OF "TRAVELS IN EUROPE AND THE EAST,"
&C., &C.

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NEW YORK:
SHELDON & COMPANY, 115 Nassau Street.
BOSTON: GOULD & LINCOLN.
1860.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by
SHELDON & COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of
New-York.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I

BASLE AND THE RHINE.

The Three Kings--Cathedral--Council of Basle--Puritan rules--Dance of
Death--Seats in the Diligence--Supplement--The Rhine--An Alderman in
trouble--Dining in haste--English manners--Girls in holiday
dress--Falls of the Rhine--Niagara--Up the river--Old
nunneries--Gottlieben--Prisons of Huss and Jerome of Prague.

Pages 9-20

CHAPTER II

CONSTANCE AND ZURICH.

A decaying Town--the Kaufhaus--Famous Council--Dungeon of Huss--Scene of
Martyrdom--House of Huss--Lake Constance--the Ride to
Zurich--Villages--the Valley--Hotel Baur--a Swiss Cottage--the
Furnishing--Miles Coverdale--Zwingle--Lavater's Grave--the
Library--Sunset View from the Botanical Garden.

Pages 21-31

CHAPTER III.

THE MOUNTAIN TOPS.

Climbing the Utleberg--Fat woman on a donkey--First Alpine view--The
valley, lake and hills--Haunts of Lavater, Zimmerman, Klopstock,
Gessner--The work of Escher--Coming Down--Baur Hotel--Lake
Zurich--Lake Zug--Golda--Land-side--Ruin--Ascent of the Rigi--The
best route--Chapels by the way--Mary of the Snow--Convent and
monks--The Summit--The Company--Change of
Temperature--Sunset--Supper--Night--Sunrise--Glory of the
view--Getting down again--Fat man done up.

Pages 32-53

CHAPTER IV.

LUCERNE AND THE LAND OF TELL.

The Lake--Avalanches--Pontius Pilate--Lucerne--Dance of
Death--Fishing--Storm on the Lake--Ramble among the Peasantry--Two
Dwarfs--On the Lake--Rifle Shooting--Chapel of William Tell--Scenes
in his Life--Altorf--Hay-Making--a Great Day.

Pages 54-80

CHAPTER V.

PASS OF ST. GOTHARD

The Priest's Leap--The Devil's Bridge--Night on the
Mountains--Storm--Hospenthal--the Glaciers--a Lady in Distress--the
Furca Pass--Glacier of the Rhone--Heinrich and Nature--Heinrich asks
after God--Scene in the Hospice.

Pages 81-106

CHAPTER VI.

GLACIERS OF THE AAR.

My new Friend--a Wonderful Youth--Hospice of the Grimsel--the Valley--a
comfortable Day--Glaciers of the Aar--a Gloomy Vale--Climbing a
Hill--View of the Glacier--Theory of its Formation--Caverns in the
Ice--Incidents of Men falling in--My Leap and Fall--an Artist
Lost--Return.

Pages 107-121

CHAPTER VII.

MOUNTAINS, STREAMS AND FALLS.

Pedestrianism--Mountain Torrents--Fall of the Handek--The Guide and his
Little Ones--Falls of the Reichenbach--Perilous Point of View.

Pages 122-145

CHAPTER VIII.

A GLACIER AND AVALANCHE.

Alpine Horn--Beggars--The Rosenlaui Glacier--Beautiful Views--Glorious
Mountain Scenes--Mrs. Kinney's "Alps"--A Lady and Babe--The Great
Scheidek--Grindelwald--Eagle and Bear--Battle with Bugs--Wengern
Alp--A real Avalanche--The Jungfrau.

Pages 146-165

CHAPTER IX.

INTERLACHEN AND BERNE.

The Staubach Fall--Lauterbrunnen--Interlachen--Cretins and Goitre--Dr.
Guggenbuhl--Giesbach Fall--Berne--Inquisitive Lady--Swiss
Creed--Crossing the Gemmi--Leuchenbad Baths.

Pages 166-180

CHAPTER X.

MONKS OF ST. BERNARD.

The Char-a-banc--the Napoleon Pass--Travellers in
winter--Monks--Dogs--Dinner--Music--Dead House--Contributions--a
Monk's Kiss.

Pages 181-192

CHAPTER XI.

FIRST SIGHT OF MONT BLANC.

The Host of Martigny--Vale of the Drance--Mount Rosa--Tete Noire--Col de
Balm--The Monarch of the Alps.

Pages 193-204

CHAPTER XII.

GENEVA

A good House--Prisoner of Chillon--Calvin--Dr. Malan--Dr. Gaussen--Col.
Tronchin--the Cemetery.

Pages 205-213

CHAPTER XIII.

PICTURES IN SWITZERLAND.

Waterfalls--Constance--Zurich--William Tell--Glaciers--the Monarch.

Pages 214-246

CHAPTER XIV.

SAXON SWYTZ.

A Model Guide--the Bastei--Banditti of old--a Cataract to Order--Scaling a
Rampart--Konigstein--the Kuhstall--the Great Winterberg--Prebisch
Thor--Looking Back.

Pages 247-264

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SWITZERLAND.

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