The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-16
A TRIP INTO SWITZERLAND.

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4 TRIP INTO SWITZERLAND.
We have left Paris for the cheated
term" The Hotel National is the per-
lection of neatness and quiet, and the
view is at once peaceful and magnificent
Everything is clean; the water is pure,
soft and perfectly safe to drink. Our
rooms front on Lake Geneva and COM
mand a view of Mont Blanc. Although
we have. not seen the grand old noun
tain for week, every one watches for it
with intense interest, and when a sunset
comes when it is visible all are out on
the piazza watching the ''dying out, as
they call it, of the outlines. The many
tints and colors, which change every mo-
ment, are something wonderful and
never to be forgotten. I realize every
day how much to be valued and appre-
ciated are these sights of foreign lands.
While reason remains these remem-
ORANGES cannot be taken away. They
will be something to feast upon in recol-
lection for the remainder of our days.
Geneva is city of hotels, though none
are yet half full. We pay eight francs
per day per capita, with two large rooms
and meals. This is very reasonable con-
sidering the accommodations.
We made mp a party, and took neat
little steamer mp to the head of the lake,
where the Rhone comes in. Tt was
magnificent day-not too warm, with no
clouds resting on hill or mountain. We
mountains at his feet. We touched at
Vevay, Ouchy, Lausanne, Montreux and
other little towns. We could see the
vineyards on the hillsides, the magni-
Gcent snow-capped peaks OF the Alps
and the Jura range. Altogether, it was
day of superb beauty.
Just beyond Montreux is the castle of
Chillon, which Byron immortalized in
song. We landed at the pier of Mon
treuy and walked half mile to the cas-
tie Oh the shore of the lake. 1t is now
used as the Canton prison and arsenal.
We saw the hall of Justice, the rocky bed
on which the condemned slept, in old
| times, the night before he died, and the
stone step used as a seat for the priest
who kept vigil with him; the place where
the guilty one was hung, and the place
where his body waa t,lmbled into the lake.
We saw the pulley of torture; the deep
well down which ne was sent, with II false
step below, which caused him to be pre-
cipitated upon knives, and then the wa
eryone is, the apartment of the Duke
and Duchess who built this impregnable
castle. The window of the room was up,
and sat down upon the stone seat in
front and rested my elbow upon the
stone window-l ledge and looked ont upon
the peaceful waters of Lake Geneva, the
grand mountains beyond, and thought,
as [ turned my eyes into the apartment
with it's bare walls, the huge fireplace
built on the two sides of the very cor
ner, was this the way they lived in the
old tiInel [ wondered what was the fur
niture of the room. It must have been
comfortless, indeed, unless there was ia
pestry and rugs, and huge fire and
luxurious bed, which very much doubt.
But forget, the man was a Dock, and
the woman was a DOOkess, and it was all
in a name. Yet to live in the midst of
such royal scenery would make up half
the sum of existence. There is rest and
peace and quietness in the scene.
This is the glorious Fourth of July.
The proprietor of the hotel has out our
national flag, and [ never realized until
this morning how proud an American
can be, in a foreign country, far from
home, when he sees that beautiful en-
sign floating on the breeze. It is
beautiful, clear, cool day. Lake Leman
is looking its loveliest, swift steamer
is cutting it's waters, and three little
schooners, with Byron's lapine sails, are
floating in an idle, silken manner into
po1t The face of Mont Blanc is lifted
into the heavens snowy peaks and
clouds lie along his sides, and at his feet
dark, verdant mountains, hills and villas,
and sparkling waters city bloom
ing in the midst of all this natural love-
illness, completes picture which even
the poetry of Byron fails to depict.
And all this land is free industry is
not crippled, and the Switzer filings ont
his banner side by side with the broad
flag of our republic, and seems to gather
daring and renewed independence from
SO powerful an adjunct.
The proprietor of the hotel recognized
our national fete by sending each room
a bouquet of flowers. And English lady
asked me what this national fete was for.
/ told her it was to celebrate the day on
which our eagle first .fe,o alone. She
seemed satisfied
Mas. A. j. ATKRNs
GENEVA, July 4, 1877.
THE INFLUENCE OF MIN UPON
CLIMATE.
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