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BASLE AND THE RHINE.

The Three Kings--Cathedral--Council of Basle--Puritan rules--Dance of Death--Seats in the Diligence--Supplement--The Rhine--An Alderman in trouble--Dining in haste--English manners--Girls in holiday dress--Falls of the Rhine--Niagara--Up the river--Old nunneries--Gottlieben--Prisons of Huss and Jerome of Prague.

Pages 9-20

CONSTANCE AND ZURICH.

A decaying Town--the Kaufhaus--Famous Council--Dungeon of Huss--Scene of Martyrdom--House of Huss--Lake Constance--the Ride to Zurich--Villages--the Valley--Hotel Baur--a Swiss Cottage--the Furnishing--Miles Coverdale--Zwingle--Lavater's Grave--the Library--Sunset View from the Botanical Garden.

Pages 21-31

THE MOUNTAIN TOPS.

Climbing the Utleberg--Fat woman on a donkey--First Alpine view--The valley, lake and hills--Haunts of Lavater, Zimmerman, Klopstock, Gessner--The work of Escher--Coming Down--Baur Hotel--Lake Zurich--Lake Zug--Golda--Land-side--Ruin--Ascent of the Rigi--The best route--Chapels by the way--Mary of the Snow--Convent and monks--The Summit--The Company--Change of Temperature--Sunset--Supper--Night--Sunrise--Glory of the view--Getting down again--Fat man done up.

Pages 32-53

LUCERNE AND THE LAND OF TELL.

The Lake--Avalanches--Pontius Pilate--Lucerne--Dance of Death--Fishing--Storm on the Lake--Ramble among the Peasantry--Two Dwarfs--On the Lake--Rifle Shooting--Chapel of William Tell--Scenes in his Life--Altorf--Hay-Making--a Great Day.

Pages 54-80

PASS OF ST. GOTHARD

The Priest's Leap--The Devil's Bridge--Night on the Mountains--Storm--Hospenthal--the Glaciers--a Lady in Distress--the Furca Pass--Glacier of the Rhone--Heinrich and Nature--Heinrich asks after God--Scene in the Hospice.

Pages 81-106

GLACIERS OF THE AAR.

My new Friend--a Wonderful Youth--Hospice of the Grimsel--the Valley--a comfortable Day--Glaciers of the Aar--a Gloomy Vale--Climbing a Hill--View of the Glacier--Theory of its Formation--Caverns in the Ice--Incidents of Men falling in--My Leap and Fall--an Artist Lost--Return.

Pages 107-121

MOUNTAINS, STREAMS AND FALLS.

Pedestrianism--Mountain Torrents--Fall of the Handek--The Guide and his Little Ones--Falls of the Reichenbach--Perilous Point of View.

Pages 122-145

A GLACIER AND AVALANCHE.

Alpine Horn--Beggars--The Rosenlaui Glacier--Beautiful Views--Glorious Mountain Scenes--Mrs. Kinney's "Alps"--A Lady and Babe--The Great Scheidek--Grindelwald--Eagle and Bear--Battle with Bugs--Wengern Alp--A real Avalanche--The Jungfrau.

Pages 146-165

INTERLACHEN AND BERNE.

The Staubach Fall--Lauterbrunnen--Interlachen--Cretins and Goitre--Dr. Guggenbuhl--Giesbach Fall--Berne--Inquisitive Lady--Swiss Creed--Crossing the Gemmi--Leuchenbad Baths.

Pages 166-180

MONKS OF ST. BERNARD.

The Char-a-banc--the Napoleon Pass--Travellers in winter--Monks--Dogs--Dinner--Music--Dead House--Contributions--a Monk's Kiss.

Pages 181-192

FIRST SIGHT OF MONT BLANC.

The Host of Martigny--Vale of the Drance--Mount Rosa--Tete Noire--Col de Balm--The Monarch of the Alps.

Pages 193-204

GENEVA

A good House--Prisoner of Chillon--Calvin--Dr. Malan--Dr. Gaussen--Col. Tronchin--the Cemetery.

Pages 205-213

PICTURES IN SWITZERLAND.

Waterfalls--Constance--Zurich--William Tell--Glaciers--the Monarch.

Pages 214-246

SAXON SWYTZ.

A Model Guide--the Bastei--Banditti of old--a Cataract to Order--Scaling a Rampart--Konigstein--the Kuhstall--the Great Winterberg--Prebisch Thor--Looking Back.

Pages 247-264

SWITZERLAND.

BASLE AND THE RHINE.

The Three Kings--Cathedral--Council of Basle--Puritan rules--Dance of Death--Seats in the Diligence--Supplement--The Rhine--An Alderman in trouble--Dining in haste--English manners--Girls in holiday dress--Falls of the Rhine--Niagara--Up the river--Old nunneries--Gottlieben--Prisons of Huss and Jerome of Prague.

Switzerland, to be seen aright, must be entered from Germany. Many travellers rush from Paris to Geneva, and beginning with Chamouni and Mont Blanc come down from the greater to the less, tapering off with the beautiful instead of rising to the sublime. One lovely summer day in the early part of the month of August, we left Baden Baden, where we had been resting after a tour in Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Saxony, Saxon Switzerland, Austria, Bavaria, and Bohemia, and came by the Duke of Baden's railroad to Basle.

The architecture of this old Swiss town is very curious, and many of the most antique gateways and fortifications, towers and walls, remain to this hour, showing the quaint but not bad devices in the way of ornament, which were in use 450 years ago. In old times, too, they had moral laws here quite as stringent as those imputed to our New England ancestors. On the Sabbath, no one might go to church unless dressed in black; the number of dishes and the quantity of wine for a dinner party were regulated by law, as well as the style and quality of clothes. The good people used to put religious mottoes over their doors, and one or two public houses still have them:

"In God I build my hopes of grace, The ancient Pig's my dwelling place."

And another still more earnest:

"Wake and repent your sins with grief, I'm called the Golden Shin of Beef."

The gates of the town are closed on the Sabbath day during the hours of service, and an outward respect paid to the day which is creditable to the people. In the hotel, a small room has been fitted up neatly as a chapel for an English service, a custom not unusual in Switzerland, where English travellers are flocking constantly.

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