Year: 1875

since spread out for our view. But, not
one scene of the tour will ever be for
gotten by any of our company.


1t was very weary party that arrived
at Heidelberg on the sixteenth Of July.
Refreshment and rest was all we desired
of the good naturcd host of the Hotel de
Russie. But like giants refreshed, We
rose with the sun the next morning,
and beefsteak breakfast supplied suffi-
cient muscle for the severe ordeal Of a
drive in carriages 10 the beautiful old
ruin of Heidelberg castle. 11


How we basked in the grand old park
of the fortress, and crowded into all
sorts of corners and curious passage
ways in the ruined castle, and finally
gathered round the ''IIeidelberg Tun


with reverential awe for the capacities
of the wine drinking ancestors who
built this monumental beer barrel. On
the summit Of the lofty Tun flock of
our younger ladies, gather ed like half
crazed Bacchantes, and danced and
sung till the old cellars resounded with
their merry, laughing voices. Every
guide book contained some specimen of
fern or oak, ivy or jessamine from the
picturesque old park when we returned
to our carriages and drove down the
steep winding road to the railway sta
ton. The market people looked at Us
as if they half believed we were phan-
tom procession flying through the town
TO escape the penalty of being out of
our tombs in the broad glare of sunlight.


The ride that day by rail to Lucerne
was Il gala-day throughout. Showers
of rain laid the dust that would have
interfered with our comfort, and the
Black Forest mountains were displayed
to the very best advantage in the lights
and shadows of such variable skies.
The moment we struck Mount Jura our
enthusiasm began, for that peculiar
type of Swiss scenery that reveals itself
on emerging from the long tunnel that
brings us to the almost indescribable
views of the Bernese Alps, nothing i'm
all nature can eclipse. Indeed the Ger
man and Swiss travellers in our Ameri-
can car q! were reused to exclamations
of delight, and they assured us that
Pilatus and the Rigi had not displayed
so brilliant a sunset for months.


Lucerne was charming resting place
that we were not disposed 10 depreciate.
Three or four days of such lake and
mountain scenery we felt would hardly
satisfy Us, when we had only To sit at
our wIIdUws, q, IcCIrIie IN easy ciiaiTr
on the floating boudoirs on the lake, and
imbibe draughts of pleasure such as
Swiss mountains, cascades and music
could combine into a rapturous harmony.
The ascent of the Rigi only intensified
the enjoyment of the scenes from Lu-
cerne. and l for one, will remember
with more lasting pleasure the sail on
the gem of lakes, with glimpses OF
familiar scenes, like Tells chapel, "the
yeritable spot where the independent
Swiss shot the apple from his sons
head" and the tracing out of the four
Cantons that form the boundary Of Lake
Lucerne, or Lake of the Four Cantons.
Of course the wooden ware shops were
invaded, and none of us failed to view
the masterpiece of art, Thorwaldsen's
Lion and the Mnlenbrncke, with the
pictures of s'the Dance of Death, p" iden-
titled to us with Longfellow' "Golden
Legend"


And had nature more beauties to offer
for our view? So it seemed when eight
carriages or miniature diligences stood
in a solemn row before our hotel, re-
ceiving the burden of our baggage with
many a creak and groan. "Four inside
and one with the driver on the box,


was the order. subscribed for half
Dor Immediately, and if remorse forms
the principal suffering of future lot
outside of Paradise, that days journey
will be no part of even regret for my
share of punishment. Through Lucerne
to the winding roads that stretch away
over mountains and through the val
leys like green bordered ribands varie-
Gated with flowers, binding hamlets
and villas in the irregular links and
folds, and reaching at last to Lake Tar
men, through Giswyl and up the Kaiser
stuhl to Lungern, where we find our
selves at the foot of the Brunig Pass.
Now begins new phase of life. Gothic
mountain peaks, gothic chalets, cas-
cades and glaciers, tinkling bells of the
mountain goats, and thrilling notes OF
mountain herdsmen, roaring OF cata-
racts and murmur of streamlets, voices
of men and voices of nature blending
and echoing in unceasing reverbera-
tions, till the dream of Patmos was no
longer an impossibility, even to an in
fidel to the glorious reality of loving
and bountifuI Creator. Three thousand
feet above the level of the sea at sun
set. in a maze of mountain peaks, gla-
ciers and cascades. The horses that
had Ieisurely drawn us to this point of
our journey, now seemed to partake OF
the spirit of the scene, and their bells
merrily chimed as they flew along the
smooth descending roads, bringing us
every ten minutes to some wilder and
more imposing spectacle than the last.


The overhanging rocks that we were
obliged to pass under alarmed some Of
us, but the whole effect of the scene
that burst upon us in the valley Of
Brienz dispelled every feeling but that
of wonder, that with all the previous
experiences of European travel, as well
as the journey in America from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast, there was
yet reserved for us day in Switzerland
that could rouse us to as fresh enjoyment
as if we had never beheld anything more
than the familiar scenes of our native
states. f. d. WALLACE.


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