New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-28
EUROPE REVISITED. No. XIV.
SWITZERLAND.

Editorial Correspondence The n. Y. Tribune.
LAUSANNE, Suisse, July'l, 1850.
Il linger yet with Nature though but for
fe hours long T, snd with no intent further 10
portray the sDow-clad nights, the leaPing cas-
eades, the sky-cleayiDg glaciers, of this won
d Gus mOuntaiI land. A careless wanderer,
Iigbt.h, arted, light-foOted with reasonably fall
purse here ADD no Duties cal ing him else
where, might spend months industriOusly in
Switzerland, seeing new marvels of beauty or
Of sublmity daily, yet leave the greater number
unvsited when October's SHOWS should block
before him the passes OF the mountains add send
him down in quest Of sunshine to the lower ana
less clouded valleys like this of the lovels Lake
ON whose borders the Vine hourishes luxuranty
and semi tropical fruits Tipen north~ard and IN
constant presence Of eternal SHOWS. To the OBJ
servers eve, each mOuHtain-Tange each valley,
each cascade, may have its peculiarities, which
distinguish il from every other, but how snail he
make these palpable to the dstant reader OF his
hssty and ll-cObsidefed D0tes, YEARLY Jotted down
ON inn tables in the intervals of his devious jour
new Let me rather speak 10 day OF the SWISS
Iowlands-o of that billy but nowhere savage or
desolate region bounded by the Alps on the south,
by France on the north, and stretching from
Geneva and the lower RhOne N the west TO Basic
and The Rhine on the east-a region embracing per
hans fourth of the entire territory OF Swizer-
land hut containing probably more than full hall
of It's population wealth, and productive capaclty.
Lake Ieman (or Geneva stretches eastward IN
the shape of new moon ITS inner or Sa'oyaIu
side b., ing but little more than forty miles long,
while It's outer or swiss coast is considerably over
fifty. At either extremity II is SWISS on oOth
shores but for some thirty miles the Sayoyard 40
mnions of the King of Sardinia are bounded rorth-
ward by its pale-green waters, wherein are MIR
roIed the peaks of the Jura on the north ana Oh
the nearer Alps on the south, Mont Blanc itseH IN
Gne weather being visible at intervals from the
Swiss steamboats, that skirt its northern shore.
The ascent on that side is moderate, the soil fer
tile and well cultivated, and its warm, sunny,
southern exposure renders II peculiarly favorable
10 the growth of the grape as well as OF all the
European grains aid grasses. | know not "here
loyeler panorama is exhibited than that pre-
sented from the deck of the small Swiss steamers
phing on this lake. The nights of the Jura, COW
cred with veTdure to their SUBMITS, contrast
lappily with the nearer sleeper and higher alps
ou the south PERCEPTIONS toward their summlts,
and naked except where their dark aud rugged
limestone is relieved by the still adherlDg Vesture
of snow. Those who have visited this region need
no other explanation than its scenery Affords OF lhe
fact that Rousseau, Nolaire Gibbon, DE stael, Slr
Humphrey Dayy, j. Philip kemble, and others
who have left the imprint of their genius on the
I history
man 70 live OF TO die in. 1t seems hard to under
stand why one unconstraned by the ties OF duty or
affection should choose TO live or die elsewhere.
Two-thirds Of the way up the Lake, from &c
neya 10 Villeneuve) the City of LAUSANNE is SIT
uattd half way up the side OF gentle Mount JoVal'
! which rises moderately TO a hight OF some ntteeh
/ hundred feet above the water, and is clothed with
/ luxuriant vegetation to It's summit. Lausanne i
a venerable city Of 1900 inhabitants, capita OF
the Canton Vaud, once dependency oil savoy Is
severed by two or three rayines-across the largest
ot which a magnificent stone bridge has recently
been thrown-and boasts TN ancient aud PIctu-
resoue Cathedral (now converted 10 protestant
u,es) and Castle once the residence OF us Bishops
now devoted 10 the deliberations OF ITS Legislative
| Council Lausanne is walled or fortified Town.
and mike most Swiss cities, evinces little nell
ration To ouigroW its sncient limits. Possibly 'he
railroad. soon TO be completed 10 this place ana
ultimately 10 place il in more immediate eomhu'
ricoti,p With Rerne, Basic, ana so with Germany
snd France will arrest the transfer of Its trade to
Geneva ard Vevsy, which the era of steam naylga'
tion has for ssne years been gradually eHecung
if not, its decay is inevitable. =.
lausanne has long been tavorlte residence IOr
ENGLISH families of cultivated tastes anu nnoue,ate
incomes and the congregation al the hnshsn
| Church this morning was probably the largest as
senbed in apy English Church on the Oon'ineu'
out of Paris Very few of these OF course are
temporarily domcied within the cro"ueo cl'!' WI.
its steep narrow streets, It's ridges and 'a',nes -
nearly all are tenants, for the season or ior years
of the comfortable dwellings surrounded oy Ga,
dens and shrubbery, which dot the Vine cisa ,anu
scspe on every side but especially toward the ,aAe
From these, as indeed from the southern WINDOW
of the hotels and many if not most OF the houses
in the city, there is an unimpeded prospect do"l
the slope to the shore, thence across the Lake an'