Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-08-27


from Rcyrout, take the Austrian steamer
and see nothing, Choosing the branol
line, had some hours in Tripuli, Latakia
AleNaudretta, Mersina and Rhodes, al
places worth seeing, The bay Of Alcxan
dFetta Is especially worthy Of note, ex
ceeding in beauty that Of Naples, smyr
M, spite OF its bay, mountains, and ruined
castles, We were all glad 10 perhaps
because We were impaticu, for Constants
uople, No city, as whole, looks better
without, or worse within is charms and
eounter-charnis are too wen known To h
. alluded 10, yet, however familiar from
books, when seen, they strike one ~ nov
elites.
Good Friday was occupied with an cS'
cursion mp the Golden Horn in a c'lQpe
a vessel IN its lightness and beauty excel
/ ling the famed gondola oi Venice,
Another week saw mo in Athens, after
an eostatic voyage among the isles that
crown the ocean deep" with Athos and
Ida both in sight az once Athens is sIpall
to the eye, but great 10 the mind, as the
mother OF all modern culture. ! made
excursions 10 Elcu,is, 90 Pvutelicus, where
| could see the mound ol Marathon, "a
the Morea and 10 Delphi.
| might have copc from Athens "a
Paris in week, but preferred Ia spend
hundred days on nay way on a previ-
Gus tour had visited Austria; my rcso-
luton was fixed TO see Naples and Rome
once more For twcu,y-iour hours | tast'
ed the Bcuedictine hospitality OF Monte
Casino, the only unstathcd monastery in
the kingdom If Italy One week gave
TO Florence, where Americans appear
more influential than in Rome, Short
visits sutiieed me for Bologna, Padua,
Venice, Verona, Milan, Como and Bcllag-
gio
Crossing the Alps by the Splugon, !
walked through VIA Malu and spent the
longest day in the year in the gorge of
Pfchers, cleft SO narrow that the sun was
visible for less than one hour Thinking
the season early Tor Swiss travel, pushed
on into Germany. In Augsburg | saw the
mansion OF Fugger, the greatest mer-
chant prince OF the sixteenth century.
Munich struck me a. a mosaic city, form
ed by cullins something rich and rare
from every notable town that had been
in From Ritsbon walked to the "Wal-
halla the German temple of glory
an exact reproduction OF the Athenian
Parthenan. Nuremburg is the most unal-
/ tered OF German cities; | doubt if the
! world can show such an arsenal filled
with tools Tor turturug, aud such a series
( Ut dungeons, all with their Internal ma
chimes IN their original position.
( Here may Dee seen that refinement OF
7 brace, the victim is thrust and instantly
cla>ped with sixteen points thrust iutot the
vita! ptrt, then rclaNrs its hold, and per-
mits the body todrop into ! cha,m be-
low.
Carlsrthe and Stuttgart am glad to
have seen, but would not 20 far to soc
them again. The cathedralo in Stras-
bourg and Freiburg drew me to those
cities, and | am glad ] made a d,tour o.
admire the lofticst and the most complete
/ specimens of German architecture.
/ Re-en,ering Switzerland. | paused az
Basic in the Museum, and Christ Church,
the battle monument and Mission House
From the lion of Luccrnr, hvwn in the
living rock, and sail ON it, lake, posted
70 . r'h''cdeIh, pace OF pilgrimage "hl,h
Hi>I,uIG' '"' 'iAlm 81 ''L9retto to lie lh'
o , 'Gr9.Ied resort m the world 1t mas
s,i.N'ty-e'ght hotels, but they are all too tall,
Thence travelled, rm Altorf and the
t -, bflaEe' 10 inc hh"ne glacier ana
followed mat NOBLE river from rs icy
soutee wen hlgh 10 It's mouth but made
many an. excursion ana matt l walked
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