The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-09-01
Summer Tour in Europe.

the portions of that country falling upon
the Rhine Leaving Geneva on the Both
of June, he passed by steamer " through
the beautiful Lake Leman which is if
ty miles long, and little more than one
in width The day was fair, the green
water smooth-passed the snow-claG Alps
the vinec clad hills, fertile valleys ana
thriving villages, and arrived at Vevay at
| Z. NJ After an earlH dinner, 3 L.
NJ. visited the prison of Chillon, built in
1900 where Bonvard the Reformer was
imprisoned by the Duke of Savoy. Here
is the pillar to which he was chained, and
the impression of his feet worn in the
! pavement. A stone bed is shown, which
the condemned occupied the night before
they were executed, and deep place to
which those whom the tyrant wished to
dispose of without trial were led blind
fold, and, descending two or three steps,
plunged thence hundred feet upon the
| rocks below. This was the scene too OF
Byron's Prisoner of ChiRon. Left Vevay
July Isl by steamer to Ouchy, thence by
Lausanne and the route of the other par
ty, already given, to Berne This city is
spoken Of as growing one OF 2o,OOO in
habitants, the capital of the Swiss Can
tons, the new Federal Palace built of
drab sandstone. Left Berne for Inter
lachen July Sd. The latter is in val
ley, long street of 1000 people, shaded
by very large walnut trees; has ten or
twelve hotels, and shop-keepers from va
rious parts of Switzerland. Like Geneva,
it is n centre for the excursions of trav-
ellers Sunday, the 4th, was a bright
day and presented a fine view of the
.j,na frau at eighteen miles distance,
900 fee; high, third Of it perpetual
snow. Lucerne was visited OH the 9th, q
thriving city of 10000 inhabitants, most
ly catholics. Saw the fine national mon
ulnent designed by Thervaldsen a lion cut
in the mountain rock of drab sand stone,
wounded but guarding with his paw the
Feur de lis Of France. 1t is twenty
eight feet long and eighteen feet high, and
commentaries the Swiss guards, who fell
in the defence of Louis XVI. One of
the few survivors Of the guard, in its red
uniform, acts as sentinel and the cicer-
one of strangers.
The Riehi, so celebrated for its panor-
annie view, is ten miles distant from Lu-
cerne, the base reached by water in an
hour, and the ascent made on mules in
three The elevation is 5000 feet, about
that of Mount Washington the Summit
hotel has 500 beds and accommodates
10000 visitors in the brief travelling sea-
son Of two or three months Separated
from other mountains, in the midst Of
beautiful Swiss scenery, it has hardly a
rival in attraction in the Alps The de-
scent was made on foot in three hours, the
paths being wet nd unsafe for animals.
Lake Zurich is praised for beauty and its
shores covered with fourishing villages !;
the city is distinguished for its manufac-
lures of silk, &c, doubtless held in good
esteem by Zurich's daughters. The pop
ulation is 1000, of Protestants chiefly.
July 9th, left for Baden-Baden by
Basle July 10th, reached Frankfort on
the Main by way Of lleidelburg. Frank
fort is free city, Of $4,000 inhabitants,
10000 of whom are Jews.
1t was the birthplace Of the Roths-
childs, as well as Goethe, and is the Ger
man money-mart. The district occupies
u narrow beautiful valley of twenty-eight
square miles, comprising in all $4,000 in
: hapitants, the government of which is ex.
ercised by two burgomasters, three syn
dies or Judges and a Senate Of forty-twC
! members The latter are chosen by the
, people, one of the two former appointed
+ by the Senate, the other by the Judges
l. 1t is in truth commercial Republic.
d The purpose of the confusion of tongue
/ seems to have been attained in Germany
IS by confusion of governments. "A cen
G tral power, which in the concentration o
r purpose sustained by people equal in in
D terest in it, might represent the whole, i
impossible The most capable race il
Europe, apparently, in numbers and intel
y igence. is so disposed and divided unde
various important or petty jurisdictions
as to balance and nullify itself, and t
count only in political weight for the ad
justment of one portion against another
" OF the thirty-eight governments Of Gel
- many, Austria and Prussia, proper, il
" clude each l2,0O0,OO0 of people. Bav'
" ria. the next in extent, has l-2 million