Part 16

From there, you can see the dazzling snow top of the Bernina, a high mountain between Switzerland and Italy, with a much travelled pass leading from the Engadine to the Valteline Valley. Journeying from Poschiavo over the Bernina, one passes a desolate spot formerly occupied by the small town of Zarera. The inhabitants of that place are said to have taken advantage of their position on the highway between Italy and Switzerland, to extort money from all the pack-drivers and travellers who passed through there. In fact, they enriched themselves by such unlawful and questionable means that they finally incurred the wrath of Heaven. One night, when the moon was partly veiled by shifting clouds, a maiden dressed in white rode slowly around their town on a snowy palfrey, calling to them to repent while it was still time. But this admonition fell upon ears that would not hear, and the predicted retribution soon came. Dark clouds gathered around the top of the mountain, vivid flashes of lightning zigzagged through the ever-increasing gloom, and soon the rain came down in such torrents that rocks and trees were swept down the mountain like pebbles and chips. In a few minutes the once prosperous town of Zarera was completely annihilated, and only the fragments of ruined houses could still be detected here and there. All the people perished in this flood, with the exception of a mother and daughter, noted for their piety, who dwelt at some distance from the wicked town.

These two women had been very busy that day, doing their semi-annual baking; for, like most of the people around there, they made bread only twice a year. In spite of the serious work on hand, they prayed as long and read their Bible as diligently as usual, and even while setting the bread to rise, commented reverently upon the teachings contained in Our Lord’s mentions of leaven and flour.

From time to time one or the other gazed out into the garden, where chestnut-trees three hundred years old overshadowed their little house. The southern exposure and the protection afforded by the mountain against the cold winds from the north and east, made their peach and apricot trees bloom already in February, allowed fresh figs to grow close at hand, and made their vines as productive as those in the Valteline. The two women were very grateful for all these blessings, and would have been perfectly happy with their lot, had they not sorely missed their husband and father, who had died three years before.

While taking the huge loaves of sweet-smelling fresh bread out of the oven, they thrice heard the melancholy, wailing note of the storm bird, but they were so absorbed in their occupations that they paid no heed to it, until the tempest fairly broke over their heads and the rain began to fall with violence.

All through that awful storm, which wrecked the town of Zarera, they knelt in prayer, and when morning came and the downpour ceased, they found their garden transformed into a stony waste, and all their trees uprooted and swept down into the valley.

In spite of the losses which suddenly deprived them of their means of existence, these two women returned fervent thanks for their preservation, and seeing that their house was now unsafe, and that it would be useless to remain on the mountain, they picked up their few remaining possessions, and wended their way down into the valley. There they soon found shelter, and by dint of hard work finally managed to retrieve their shattered fortunes; but, as long as they lived, they both remembered the awful storm in which they would surely have perished had it not been for the hand of God stretched out in protection over them.

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FOLLOWING the Rhine’s devious course toward its source in the St. Gothard mountain, we come to the junction of two branches of this stream at Disentis.[16] Here stands an abbey, dating from the seventh century, when its monks served as missionaries to the people around them.

[16] For other data, see the author’s “Legends of the Rhine.”

The heathen from the banks of Lake Constance once made a raid down this valley, and visiting every castle, church, convent, and hut, destroyed almost everything they could not carry away. Laden with booty, they were slowly making their way north again, when they were surprised at Disentis by the exasperated Swiss. The latter there attacked the heathen with such fury that all those who were not killed were only too glad to seek safety in precipitate flight.

The brave Swiss were so weary, when the battle was over, and so parched with thirst, that they longed for a drink. As there was no spring near by, and as their extreme exhaustion would not permit their going in search of one, their venerable old leader made a short but fervent prayer, and then thrust his sword into the ground up to the very hilt. When he slowly drew it out again a moment later, a strong jet of water shot straight up into the air, and falling down again on the rocky soil, soon formed a pool and brook where all could drink. This spring still flows as freely as ever, and its limpid waters possess medicinal properties which have since attracted many visitors to this picturesque spot.

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THE line between Glarus and Grisons was long undetermined, so the shepherds from either canton often indulged in raids and cattle-stealing, which not infrequently resulted in violence and bloodshed.

Once the men of Glarus suddenly came over the border, and noiselessly surrounding a large pasture, drove away all the cows, after tumbling the herdsmen head first into the great kettles of boiling milk where they were busy making cheese. Only one of these men managed to escape death by hiding in the hay. As soon as the raiders vanished, he determined to sound the alarm. Taking his horn, he therefore climbed up into a pine-tree, just above the great Flimser Rock, and calling through this instrument with all his might, told his beloved Trubina, who dwelt on another alp, of the misfortune which had occurred. The strain was such, however, that the unhappy youth burst a blood-vessel, and sank dying from the top of the tree. His life blood ran in a thin stream over the great rock, where it made an indelible red streak, which can still be seen, and which serves to remind people of his heroic deed.

The timely warning he had given enabled Trubina to start a party of Grisons herdsmen after the cattle, which they followed down the mountain to the village of Flims. By careful reconnoitring, they soon ascertained that the cows had been turned into an enclosed orchard, just beside the inn where the raiders were celebrating their capture in the most convivial way.

Stealing unseen into this orchard, the Grisons men slyly fastened all the cow-bells to one steer, which they left in the enclosure, while they noiselessly drove all the rest of the herd home. The revellers, hearing the constant tinkle of cow-bells, deemed their prizes quite safe, and were therefore greatly surprised and chagrined, when after their carousal they found only one bull calf in the enclosure, and saw how cleverly they had been duped.

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ON the frontier between Glarus and Uri, and not far from the Klausen Pass, where the great Boundary Race took place, rises a majestic glacier known as the Claridenalp. The people around there claim that this mountain was once fine pasture-land up to the very top, where a small ice-cap served to feed the many streams trickling down through the rich alps into the valley.

Most of the grazing on the Claridenalp once belonged to a young herdsman, who, although he revelled in plenty, cruelly let his old parents starve in the valley below him. This young man was, however, lavish enough when it suited him to be so, for he daily sent rich presents to his sweetheart, who, on the whole, was as selfish and heartless as he.

Finding separation from her unendurable, the young herdsman finally begged her to come up and spend the summer with him in his fine châlet, and receiving a favourable answer, immediately began elaborate preparations for her reception. His cows were groomed until they shone, and decked with bright ribbons and garlands of flowers; his larder stocked with every dainty he could secure, and lest his beloved should bruise her tender feet against a stone, or soil her dainty apparel in walking near the châlet, he paved the space all around it with fine rich cheeses, thus making a soft and smooth, if rather costly floor.

Meeting his sweetheart part way down the mountain, the herdsman joyfully escorted her to the châlet, where she duly admired all his arrangements, and encouraged his extravagance by throwing butter into the fire to keep up a bright flame. The revelry up in the châlet grew more fast and furious hour after hour, and the lovers feasted and sang, while the poor parents, faint from lack of food, lay shivering on their hard pallets down in the valley.

A burst of loud music floating down from the mountain finally roused the old father from his torpor. Sitting up in bed, he then shook his emaciated fist in the direction of the châlet, and solemnly cursed his unnatural son.

That night, an awful storm swept down the mountain, and when morning broke, the people in the valley saw that the Claridenalp had been transformed overnight into the glacier which you now see. Pasture and cattle, herdsman and sweetheart had all vanished, but the spirits of the lovers are said to haunt the site of their mad revelry.

Similar stories, with trifling variations, are told of many other snow mountains in Switzerland. The Plan Nevé, for instance, is said to have become a waste because a herdsman ill-treated his old mother. But the Blümelisalp, once the possession of a rich dairymaid, who built a staircase of cheeses from valley to châlet so she could more easily trip down to the weekly dances, was transformed into the present glacier, because she cruelly gave an aged beggar a drink of milk in which she maliciously stirred some rennet. The milk, turning suddenly into a hard lump of cheese in the poor woman’s stomach, caused her such intolerable suffering that she cursed the cruel giver.

Since then, the alp, once thickly strewn with the many delicate Alpine flowers which gave it its name, has been almost inaccessible. But countless mortals constantly admire it from a distance, and breathlessly watch it flush at sunset, or glitter in all its icy splendour beneath the silvery rays of the full moon.

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HELVETIA boasts of many other legends connected with nearly every part of her soil; but as they are mostly repetitions of those already quoted they are purposely omitted here. The samples of Swiss folklore already supplied will enable travellers to gain some idea of the old-time village tales which have cast their glamour over “the playground of Europe.” These crude yet often poetical imaginings lend additional charms to scenery which rises before our mental vision whenever we hear or see the magic word “Switzerland.”

Index

Aare, 106, 120, 127, 140, 144, 167, 170.

Aargau, 158–175.

Aa Valley, 221.

Aawasser, 226.

Abbey, 153, 243, 280, 296.

Adalbert, 278–280.

Ægeri, Lake of, 193–194.

Agnes of Hapsburg, 193.

Ahasuerus, 126–131.

Aigle, 33–36.

Aix-la-Chapelle, 179, 251, 252.

Albert of Hapsburg, 192–193.

Alemannia, 168.

Alemans, 170, 242.

Allobroges, 4.

All Saints, 244.

Alois, 213–214.

Alphorn, 124–126, 278, 298.

Alpine flowers, 41, 136, 231, 302.

Alp of Little Flowers, 136, 302.

Alps, 55, 106, 128, 138, 140, 143, 170, 196, 276.

Alsacia, 168.

Altenburg, 168–169.

Altorf, 175, 186–187, 189, 191, 229–230, 231, 254–257.

Angels’ Mountain, 222.

Appenzell, 274–280.

Archbishop of Canterbury, 276.

Arnold von Melchthal, 182, 183.

Arnold von Winkelried, 195–196.

Arosa, 284–285.

Arth, 215, 219, 261.

Artus, 27.

Attinghausen, 224.

Aucenda, 49.

Austria, 167, 179, 196.

Austrian, 182, 186, 194, 195, 196, 213.

Axenberg, 189.

Axenstein, 189.

Babes in the Woods, 158.

Baden, 160–161.

Baldern, 252.

Balisalp, 123–124.

Balme, Grotto of, 41.

Basel, 97, 99, 147–157.

Beatenberg, 107–112.

Beatus, St., 107–112.

Beatushöhle, 108.

Bellinzona, 238–241.

Benedictine Abbey, 153, 243.

Bergy, Wilhelmine of, 82–85.

Bern, 59, 97–139, 221, 276.

Bern, Dietrich of, 102.

Bernese, 57.

Bernese Alps, 106.

Bernese Oberland, 102.

Bernina, 293–296.

Berra, 14.

Bertha, Queen, 21–24.

Berthold V. of Zähringen, 102–104.

Bertram, 101–102.

Birrfeld, 170.

Bishop of Basel, 97, 174.

Bishop of Mayence, 179.

Bishop Werner, 171–173.

Black Art, 203, 224.

Blanc, Mt., 1, 10, 23, 76, 143.

Blonay, 27.

Blümelisalp, 136, 301–302.

Bohemia, 180.

Boundary Race, 229–230, 299.

Brandolf of Stein, 57–68.

Brienz, 123.

Brienz, Lake of, 106, 120,122.

Broken Mountain, 196.

Brugg, 158–160.

Bründlisalp, 210, 214.

Brune, General, 103.

Bubenberg, Von, 103–104.

Bull’s Stream, 226.

Burgdorf, 101–102.

Burglauenen, 131.

Bürglen, 185, 190, 192.

Burgundian 4, 57–68, 104.

Burgundy, 21, 82, 113.

Burkard of Landskron, 149–150.

Cæsar, 4.

Calanda, 281.

Calfriesen, 283.

Caligula, 199–200.

Capped Mountain, 197.

Capuchin, 231–232.

Carinthia, 180.

Castiel, 282–284.

Castieltobel, 283.

Castle in the Water, 272–273.

Cerlier, 97–99.

Chamounix, 41.

Champey, Lake of, 51.

Charlemagne, 147, 248–252, 254, 270–271, 276.

Charles the Bold, 57–68.

Château d’Oex, 14.

Châtelard, 27.

Chaulin, 29–31.

Chaumont, 79.

Chaux-de-Fonds, la, 82, 87, 89, 92.

Choristers’ House, 248–249.

Christ, 4, 108, 126, 147, 198, 200, 206, 266, 292, 295.

Christian, 4, 5, 39, 40, 71, 109, 113, 248.

Christianity, 39, 197.

Christopher, St., 104–105.

Chur, 281.

Clarens, 28–31.

Clémence, 164–165.

Coffrane, 80.

Coire, 281, 282, 286.

Col de Jaman, 31–32.

Colombettes, 77.

Colombiers, 80.

Confederation, 194.

Conrad, 196, 222.

Constance, 271.

Constance, Lake of, 270, 296–297.

Constantius Chlorus, 170.

Conthey, 46–52.

Corbassière, 51.

Crusades, 71.

Cursed Alp, 289.

Cyprian Herb, 287.

David, 105.

Davos, 284, 286.

Davos Platz, 286–289.

Davos Schwartzhorn, 286–287.

Dead Alp, 286–287.

Death, 194.

Dent de Jaman, 31.

Dent du Midi, 76.

Devil, 111, 140–143, 232, 234–237, 266, 277–278.

Devil’s Bridge, 232–237.

Devil’s Stone, 237.

Diablerets, 39–41, 42, 76.

Dietrich of Bern, 102.

Diocletian, 70.

Disentis, 296–297.

Dominican Grotto, 210–211.

Dominikhöhle, 210–211.

Dragonstone, 210.

Droz, Jacques, 87–89.

Duin, 13.

Eiger, 135.

Einheer, 271.

Einigen, 109–112, 116, 117.

Einsiedlen, 72, 266–269.

Ekkehard, 276.

Elizabeth of Stein, 61–68.

Engadine Valley, 291–296.

Engelberg, 221–223.

Engelbrechtsthor, 245.

Erlach, 97–99.

Erlach, Rudolf von, 104.

Ermance, 24–27.

Esau, 23.

Ettingen, 151.

Evil One, 141–143, 232, 237.

Falls of the Rhine, 242–244.

Faulhorn, 131.

Felix, St., 248.

Fenetta, 43–46.

Fletschalp, 55.

Fletschhorn, 52–55.

Flims, 298–299.

Flimser Rock, 298.

Florinus, St., 291–292.

Flühlen, 188–189.

Föhn, 227.

Forest Cantons (Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwald), 176–237.

Fracmont, 196.

France, 113.

Frastrada, 250.

Frauenfeld, 254, 273.

Frauenmünster, 252.

French, 120.

Fribourg, 14, 31, 69–78, 102, 233.

Frickthal, 155–157.

Frohburg, 143–145.

Furka Pass, 56, 224.

Fürstenstein, 151–153.

Fürst, Walter, 182, 183, 185.

Gabriel, St., 116, 122.

Gargantua, 10–14.

Garganum, 114.

Gaul, 201.

General Brune, 103.

Geneva, 1–5, 12.

Geneva, Lake of, 1–5, 12, 28, 31, 32, 76.

Germany, 179, 276.

Gessler, 186–191.

Gex, 49.

Gezard, 82.

Gibloux, 14.

Gideon, 143.

Gidi, 132.

Gidisdorf, 132.

Giessbach, 122.

Glarnisch, 254.

Glarus, 228–231, 254, 276, 281–302.

Glücksalp, 277.

Goeschenen, 232, 233, 236.

Golden Age, 8–10, 22, 131–132.

Goliath, 105.

Gothard, St., 224, 231, 232, 233, 296.

Grain Angels, 158.

Grandson, 56–68.

Grimmenstein, 99–100.

Grimoald, 24–27.

Grimsel, 126–131.

Grindelwald, 131–132, 133, 135.

Grisons, 281–302.

Grotte de Balme, 41.

Gruerius, 70.

Grütli, 183, 186.

Gruyère, 70–76.

Guelfs, 254–257.

Güppe, 202–204.

Güttingen, 271–273.

Habichtsburg, 171, 173.

Habsburg, 173.

Hadrian, 113.

Haldenstein, 281–282.

Hallwyl, 162–167.

Hallwyl, Lake of, 162.

Hans, 73–75.

Hapsburg, Rudolf von, 104, 173, 176–180.

Hapsburg Castle, 104, 167–175, 180, 186, 192, 193.

Hasli Scheidegg, 133.

Hat Fiend, 237.

Hauenstein, 143.

Hawk’s Castle, 171.

Heiterloch, 135.

Helvetia, 168, 180, 302.

Henry of Rapperswyl, 162.

Herod, 202.

Hiltiboldus, 274–275.

Hohenstauffens, 175.

Hohenstollen, 123–125.

Hohe Rhonen, 265–266.

Hohle Gasse, 190.

Hole of Uri, 233.

Hollow Way, 190.

Holy Land, 71, 163, 246.

Holy Sepulchre, 142, 163.

House of Austria, 181.

Huchées, 7.

Hut Schelm, 237.

Icelandic moss, 287.

Illiez Valley, 13.

Im Fehlen, 277.

Immensee, 190.

Inn Valley, 293–296.

In Sin, 277.

Interlaken, 106, 120, 131, 135, 138.

Irmentrude, 254.

Iseltwald, 120–122.

Italy, 55, 131, 233, 292.

Ivy Snake, 48.

Jacob, 23.

Jacob, St., 149–151.

Jaman, 31–32.

James of Romont, 57–68.

Jardin des Plantes, 103.

Jesus Christ, 198.

Jew, The Wandering, 126–131.

Jodels, 7.

John of Hapsburg, 180, 192.

John of Hallwyl, 163–167.

Joliette, 28–31.

Jungfrau, 136.

Jura, 76, 79, 82, 144, 151.

Justus, 110–112.

Kastelnalp, 212–214.

Kerzerz, 106.

King Herod, 202.

King John, 276.

Kisher, 270–271.

Klausen Pass, 228–231, 299.

Königsfelden, 193.

Kriemhild, 253–254.

Kuhreihen, 76, 124–125.

Küssnacht, 190.

Kyburg, 254–260, 273.

Kyburg Castle, 257.

La Chaux-de-Fonds, 82, 87, 89, 92.

Lady of Haldenstein, 281–282.

Lady of Munot, 246–247.

Lake of Ægeri, 193–194.

Lake of Brienz, 106, 120, 122.

Lake of Champey, 51.

Lake of Constance, 270, 276, 296–297.

Lake of Geneva, 1–5, 12, 28, 31, 32, 76.

Lake of Hallwyl, 162.

Lake Leman, 1, 2.

Lake of Lowertz, 218–221.

Lake of Lucerne, 176, 183, 189, 190, 226, 261.

Lake of Neuchâtel, 56.

Lake of Sempach, 195.

Lake of Thun, 106, 107, 114, 118, 120, 131, 261.

Lake of Türl, 253–254.

Lake of Zug, 261–264.

Lake of Zürich, 248.

Lällenkönig, 148–149.

Landskron, 149–151.

La Sarraz, 18–21, 27.

La Soye, 49.

Laupen, 104.

Lausanne, 18, 201.

Lauterbrunnen, 117, 138.

Le Locle, 82, 87, 89.

Leman, Lake, 1, 2.

Lenzburg, 101, 162.

Leodegarius, St., 209.

Leuk, 50.

Limmat, 170.

Linth Valley, 229, 230.

Locle, Le, 82, 87, 89.

Lombardy, 24, 115.

Lorraine, 103.

Louis II., 252, 257.

Louis IX., 151.

Lowertz, Lake of, 218–221.

Lucerne, 72, 162, 178, 183, 189, 190, 195, 196, 205, 207, 209, 226.

Lucerne, Lake of, 176, 183, 189, 190, 226.

Luck Ship, 1–3.

Lucky Alp, 277.

Lüen, 283.

Lütchine, 131.

Magadino, 238–241.

Magdalen, 212–214.

Margaret, St., 102.

Margaret of Gruyère, 72–76.

Maria im Stein, 152.

Mariastein, 153.

Maria Stella, 162.

Marie Madeleine, Ste., 4–5.

Martin, St., 135–136.

Martinsloch, 135.

Maurice, St., 40, 48.

Mayence, 179.

Meer Stern, 162.

Meinrad, 266–269.

Meiringen, 123, 126, 133, 278.

Merligen, 118–120.

Mettenberg, 135.

Michael, St., 113–117, 118.

Midi, Dent du, 76.

Moléson, 70, 76–78.

Monk’s Leap, 232.

Mons Fractus, 196.

Mons Pileatus, 197–198.

Mont Blanc, 1, 10, 23, 76, 143.

Monte Rosa, 10.

Monthey, 13, 47.

Montreux, 28, 31.

Morat, 68, 69.

Morgarten, 193–194.

Morge, 233.

Moritz, St., 293.

Moses, 143.

Mount Pilatus, 196, 205, 206, 207–214.

Mühlenthal, 246.

Müllinen, 164–166.

Munot, 245–247.

Muri, 160.

Mürren, 138, 139.

Mythenstein, 183.

Nancy, 68.

Nero, 49, 50.

Neuchâtel, 79–96.

Neuchâtel, Lake of, 56, 81, 86–87, 79–96.

Neu Hapsburg, 176–179.

Niebelungenlied, 276.

Niesen, 106.

Novarre, 103.

Noville, 42–46.

Oberhofen, 112.

Oberland, 102, 131.

Odin, 100.

Oex, Château d’, 14.

Oldenhorn, 42.

Olten, 143, 144.

Orbe, 15.

Ormond, 33–36, 153.

Our Lady of Lucerne, 72.

Palestine, 71.

Paradise, 110.

Paris, 90, 91, 92, 93, 103.

Pathô, 14.

Payerne, 22.

Pestalozzi, 101, 170.

Pfäfers, 278–280.

Pfaffensprung, 232.

Pilate, Pontius, 198–205, 206, 207.

Pirminius, St., 278, 280.

Plan Nevé, 48, 50, 301.

Plurs, 289–290.

Pontarlier, 93–96.

Pont-la-Ville, 14, 233.

Pontius Pilate, 198–205, 206, 207.

Pontresina, 293.

Poschiavo, 293.

Procla, 198.

Radbod of Altenburg, 169–173.

Ragatz, 278.

Raining Rock, 28–31.

Ralligen, 117–118.

Ralligenstock, 117–118.

Ramflue, 176–177.

Randenberg, 244–245.

Ranz des Vaches, 76, 124–125.

Raphael, St., 116.

Rapperswyl, 162.

Raymond, 25–27.

Red Snow, 55.

Red Valley, 136.

Regula, St., 248.

Reichenau, 273.

Reichenbach, 123.

Rémus, 291–292.

René of Lorraine, 103.

Res, 123–125.

Reuss, 170, 192, 232, 233, 236, 237.

Rheinau, 243.

Rhine, 147, 242–244, 296.

Rhône, 12, 14,39–40,42–46, 50, 126, 127, 201, 206.

Rhône Glacier, 126.

Richard, D. J., 87.

Richensee, 196.

Rigi, 214–218, 261.

Rigi-Kaltbad, 215–218.

Rochefort, 86.

Roll, 117–118, 131, 261.

Rollin of Vallengin, 79–81.

Romainmotier, 15–18.

Roman, 4, 147, 170, 193, 199, 200, 201, 248.

Romanshorn, 271.

Rome, 107, 199, 278.

Romont, 57–68, 70.

Rosa, Monte, 10.

Rossberg, 261.

Rossini, 181.

Rothberg, 151–153.

Rothenthal, 136, 137, 138.

Rothhorn, 289–290.

Rudolf von Erlach, 104.

Rudolf von Hapsburg, 104, 173–180, 181.

Ruthenzug, 160.

Rütli, 183, 185.

Ruz, Val de, 79–81.

Saint Felix, 284.

St. Florinus, 291–292.

St. Gabriel, 116, 122.

St. Gall, 274–280.

St. Gallus, 274–276.

St. Gothard, 224, 231, 232, 233, 296.

St. Jacob, 149–151.

St. Leodegarius, 209.

St. Margaret, 102.

St. Marie Madeleine, 4–5.

St. Martin, 135–136.

St. Maurice, 40, 48.

St. Michael, 113–117, 218.

St. Moritz, 293.

St. Pirminius, 278, 280.

St. Raphael, 116.

St. Regula, 248.

St. Triphon, 13.

St. Verena, 140–143, 160, 254.

Salamanca, 203, 204, 206, 254.

Salève, 12.

Sarine, 14, 70, 76, 233.

Sarraz, La, 18–21, 27.

Satan, 14, 39, 40, 51, 99, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 116, 117, 149, 224, 235, 237.

Sausbach, 139.

Savoy, 1.

Scandinavian, 107.

Scex que Plliau, 28.

Schächen, 191.

Schaffhausen, 242–247.

Scheffel, Von, 276.

Scheidegg, 132, 133.

Schiller, 15, 36, 179, 181, 190.

Schinznach, 167.

Schnabelberg, 253.

Schoellenen, 232.

Schreckhorn, 133–135.

Schwanau, 215, 216, 218, 219, 220.

Schwartzhorn, 286–287.

Schwesternborn, 218.

Schwyz, 175, 181, 182, 191, 265, 266–269.

Seealp, 123–125.

Seeheim, 273.

Seelisberg, 183, 184, 227–228.

Seldenbüren, Conrad of, 222.

Sempach, 195–196.

Sentis, 143, 276–278.

Seyon, 79.

Siedelhorn, 131.

Sils, 292, 293.

Simplon, 52.

Sintram, 101–102.

Sion, 49–50.

Snow Eyes, 135.

Soleure, 140–143.

Soye, La, 49.

Spain, 87.

Spalen, 148.

Spalenberg, 148.

Spalenthor, 148.

Spiez, 112, 117.

Spirit of the Alps, 36.

Spirit of Evil, 235.

Spirit of the Mountain, 53.

Spirit of the Winds, 2.

Stanz, 195, 221.

Star of the Sea, 162.

Staubbach, 138.

Stauffacher, 182, 183.

Steersbrook, 226.

Stein, Brandolf von, 57–68.

Stein Castle, 160.

Strättlingen, 112–117.

Styria, 180.

Sulgen, Count of, 266.

Sürenenalp, 221, 223–226.

Sürenen Pass, 223.

Swiss Sleepers, 185.

Swiss Confederation, 104, 147, 181.

Tamina, 278–280.

Tell chapels, 183, 189, 190.

Tellsplatte, 189.

Tell, William, 181, 185, 189, 191, 192.

Tessin, 238–241.

Thebaid, 70.

Theodore Weinzäpfli, 106.

Three Finger Stone, 266.

Three Marys, 160–161.

Three Tells, 184–185.

Thun, 106.

Thun, Lake of, 106, 107, 114, 118, 120, 131.

Thurgau, 270–273.

Tiber, 200–201.

Tiberius, 199.

Titlis, 76, 221.

Tobel, 282–283.

Trèves, 140.

Triphon, St., 13.

Trubina, 298–299.

Turicum, 248.

Türl, Lake of, 253–254.

Türlersee, 253–254.

Turpin, 251.

Tyrolean Mts., 276.

Uetliberg, 174–175.

Unterwald, 175, 181, 182, 191, 195, 196.

Upper Engadine, 293–296.

Upper Grindelwald Glacier, 133.

Uri, 175, 180, 181, 182, 185, 186, 191, 221, 224, 226, 228–231, 233, 237, 299.

Urner Loch, 233.

Valais, 6–68, 136, 233.

Val de Ruz, 79–81.

Vallengin, 79–81, 82.

Vallorbes, 15, 18.

Valteline Valley, 293–296.