A glance at some of the beauties and sublimities of Switzerland
Subtitle: with excursive remarks on the various objects of interest, presented during a tour through its picturesque scenery
Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green
Published: 1829
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: Introduction — Geneva — Excursion to the Valley of Chamouni — Montanvert and the Mer de Glace 1; title: CHAPTER II.; title: Lausanne and its Environs — Paragreles — Chilon - 40; title: CHAPTER III.; title: Second visit to Chamouni — Fall of Chede — Passage by the Col de Balmeto the Vallais 74; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: Martigny — The Catastrophe of 1818 — The Great St Bernard, and Hospice 94; title: CHAPTER V.; title: Brieg — The Vallais — Passage of the Simplon into Italy — The Lago Maggiore and its Isles — Arona 117; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: Milan — Retour via Como — Tourtemagne and Cascade — Sion — Goitures 140; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: Bex and its Salines — Geneva revisited — Sunday — Fete d'Eau — Y verdun — Neufchatel - - 166; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: Berne — Fellenberg and Hofwyl — Hindlehank — Thun and its Lake — Unterseen — Lauterbrunnen and the Cascade of Staubach — Grindelwald — The Glaciers 190; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: Lake of Brientz — Cascade of Giesbach — Chanteuses, — The Alpine Horn — The Passage of the Brunig — The Valley of Samen — Stantz — Lac des Quatre Cantons — The Three Fountains — TelTs Chapel — Schwitz — The Lake of Lowertz - - 216; title: CHAPTER X.; title: Goldau and the ruin of the Rossberg — The Rhigi — Sublime Panorama as seen from the Rhigi Culm — Lucerne 239; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: Zug — Zurich — Basle on the Rhine — Conclusion - 266