Category: Travel Writing
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--P...
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 mann...
4. CHAPTER II5. CHAPTER III.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--B...
6. CHAPTER IV.7. CHAPTER V.8. CHAPTER VI.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...
9. CHAPTER VII.10. CHAPTER VIII.11. CHAPTER IX.12. CHAPTER X.13. CHAPTER XI.14. CHAPTER XII.15. CHAPTER XIV.16. CHAPTER I.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 mann...
17. CHAPTER II.Forty thousand people once lived together within the walls of Constance. Now less than seven thousand are here. But the old and curious houses still stand, many of them without...
18. CHAPTER III.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--B...
19. CHAPTER IV.In the Hotel de la _Concorde_, the "house of peace," I found a pleasant chamber on the edge of the Lake of Lucerne; and so near that in its lucid waters I can from my window see...
20. CHAPTER V.We are now on the great road that leads over the Alps into Italy by the famous Pass of St. Gothard. The diligence to Milan went off this morning at nine o'clock, and had we come...
21. CHAPTER VI.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...
22. CHAPTER VII.Not in the best of spirits, nor in as good condition as a pedestrian could wish, I set off the next morning, with my young friends. We would have felt better but for a foolish r...
23. CHAPTER VIII.A beautiful Chamois was standing on the ledge of rock that overhung the path as I turned away from the Reichenbach Fall, and I was pleased to see so fine a specimen of the anima...
24. CHAPTER IX.The Staubach Fall, nearly a thousand feet high, is far from being such a thing of beauty as I had hoped to find it. It comes from such a height and has so small a body of water,...
25. CHAPTER X.The weather was threatening when we set off from Martigny, and we had many forebodings that the dogs of Saint Bernard might have to look us up, if the storm should come before w...
26. CHAPTER XI."Bring me for my ride to-morrow the _easiest_ of all the mules in Martigny," I said to Antonio, on the evening after my return from the pass of St. Bernard. I was knocked up nea...
27. CHAPTER XII.The _Hotel des Bergues_ stands on the Lake of Geneva, just where the "arrowy Rhone" shoots out from its bosom. This is one of the finest hotels in Europe, and with the _Trois Co...
28. CHAPTER XIII.The waterfalls of Switzerland are among its crowning glories; and of these the falls of Schaffhausen are altogether the most imposing. The European, who has never worshiped at t...
29. CHAPTER XIV.In a corner of Saxony is a miniature Switzerland. They call it Saxon Switzerland; perhaps the name is not well chosen, for it has one feature only of Swiss scenery--exceeding be...