The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-27
Lee sureB Of DR.. Bald OH Europe.

D. Balrd's lecture Oh 5 Switzerland took place
"A tne Femsle Academy, Brooklyn, on Saturday
last. audience was more numerous than D..
AZ former ocCasioa, ana the lecture was listen
81 20 VITA grea, attention. DR.. Baird said, that
oT zerland confined about 2J0, 90 square miles,
aud possessed a population OF about 1908, 900 -
Ii is very mountainous country, copseqle atty
me number of square miles under or suscept bic
ct culttvltlon is not great, and the land is II t
able 10 support very numerous population. Tue
CAUTION OF Grlsous, which Is the largest In the
Union, contains very lew Inhabitants. Ii Is I'M
possible tor you to travel through Switzerland
without witnessing the most beautiful sceueiy
lm iglnable. You Will be struck with the APP
p-ardnce CT the mountdlns. Those which
not nigh enough to be covered with snow pr sent
very picturesque and wild appearance. Trees
and forests are 10 be found IN the lower parts oi
me mountains, every spot that is susceptible
oeidg cultivated or planted with trees. As you
advance higher up the mountain, four or five
thousand feet, the trees disappear, aud you find
nothing but brush wood go higher, six or seven
thousand feet, and you find struggling bushes;
higher, and you find nothing but snow. There
are many couatrles where you ind snow lower
the mountains than here. In Norway 1t is
only about three thousand feet, but you must re-
member Switzerland Is in 40 latitude. There
IRE some, where snow is not found, on account CT
the mountain being so steep that II Will not lay.
The GLACIERS are very interesting. Four hundred
is generally said to be the NUMBER OF them; but
IT appears to me that is below the number. Ii is
said on Mount Blanc alone there are 90 GLACIERS
They have very curious appearance, somewhat
like the rutiled water of "a lake suddenly frozen,
aud In summer present beautiful contrast the
rounding scenery They white like snow, and yet
remain stationary II Is fcu,t to say how they are
formed theory is, that they caused by pres
sure the top Of the and the water running
beneath them frozen a it descends the sides Of the
mountains There other theories, but 1t s difficult
to say which Is the correct They descend to the
valley in the winter and In the summer they dis
appear till you reach cert ain height the mountains
lfyou ascend to about 60oo feet the mountan you
arrive at what Is called the Main Gszer. There Is q
continual crashing going on in the mountains The
glzers continually changing, assures opening and clos
ing which very dangerous as II the unwary travel
Ter unfortunately is overtaken by one certain des
truction. In all the countries have visited, Switz
erand is the most remarkable tor variety Of scenery
10 some parts the land is cultivated like garden, and
the country around these snow capped mountains is
very pleasant. DIR. Baird then spoke Of the produc
lions of Switzerland, its manufactures and CON-
msrce; aud said that there few countries
is very uniform. And yet, says DR. B., there great
many dwsrf idiots and other monstrosites 1t took the
They retained Il about three hundred Years.
1t conquered by the Goths and shortly afterwards
they became independent You have all read OF heard
They have built chapel on the spot where he main
tanned his country rights the GRIM
ages to every year, and consider 1t their Plymouth
rock The struggle was maintained for q hundred
years. and they succeeded in achieving their indepen
denoe At the present there ~ the
Union The various cantons tend representatives to
Diet holden like that OF Rhode lslana in various pssts
of the country 1t has the power OF making peace and
war; but does not interfere with tho internal affairs Of
tae several states The doctor here gave account Of
the several States the of their population, and
the proportion Of Catholics to Protestn and said that
the present commotion in Switzerland had been caused
by tue Jesuits priests vd Roman Catholics In one Of
the revolutions in Switzerland the people said they wait
ed universal suffrage said to them, You have that,
or nearly SOB Yes said they, but want social
MS well political equality" This says the reverend
gentleman Is to be attributed to the spread Of Socialism
aud Fourierism pointed a spot map opposite
Geneva where Voltaire for time resided Hs
cracked his the Swss and said that the city Of
Geneva small II he ascended the bsttements
Of his house shook his cap the powder 20
the whole oity The Swiss have NO language Of their