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  THE CONSTITUTION OF 1848 395-407 New Federal Constitution--Federal Assembly--Federal Council--Federal Tribunal--


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  152 Hut on Col de Bértol--Ascending the Aiguilles Rouges--Summit of the Dent Blanche--Cornice on the Dent Blanche


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id: 22255
title: The Counts of Gruyère
author: De Koven, Anna
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  the Bernois, Count Pierre de Gruyère successfully held them in check, in the city square, the Gruyère people better loved their dances, the "It happened one day that the Count de Gruyère returning to his castle, between Gruyère and Château D''Oex, and great was the fame of Count Rodolphe IV, reigning count of Gruyère, displayed in his long career no Among them were Duke René of Lorraine and Count Louis of Gruyère, who Savoy, the count of Gruyère, who only by _force majeure_ had sided with support of Savoy, Count Louis, always working heart and soul for peace Gruyère and his brother by immediately investing Count Jean II with the the counts of Gruyère of arbitrators for Savoy and Romand Switzerland in the long coveted Pays de Vaud and summoned the count of Gruyère to relates, "died at Gruyère, the noble and powerful lord Jean, Count of


id: 39651
title: Switzerland
author: Fox, Frank
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  CHAPTER VII THE SWISS PEOPLE TO-DAY To her lakes rather than to her mountains Switzerland owed the watercourses of Europe, had come to these Swiss lakes resting at the Throughout the Middle Ages Switzerland and the Swiss were always in and later differences of religion, a Swiss idea of nationality lived Cantons," which represented the Swiss nationality until the days of THE SWISS PEOPLE TO-DAY day--all are understood and discussed in Switzerland, and the Swiss Martin Conway describes Swiss Alpine glaciers as the Alps as difficult mountains to climb, presenting great problems of Switzerland gave a thought to mountain-climbing as a pleasure. In Switzerland, spring is the great time for avalanches. section of the Swiss Alpine Club exists, and its members last year There is a great distinction between the national sports of the Swiss of the practical is the Swiss custom to keep the schools in mountain


id: 39542
title: The Alps
author: Conway, William Martin, Sir
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  What would the great snow mountains look that any snow mountains were really as fine as clouds like these? Beyond those mountains is the Zermatt valley; that peak looks down on notice the form of the snow peak, the modelling of the glacier surface, have opened the eyes of many a climber to effects of beauty in mountains ask him to tell us what the great peaks there look like when seen from mountain form which distinguishes the great peaks there, so that, beheld for these other forces, a great mountain region would be like. But a cliff or slope of rock rising out of a glacier or snow-field summit in the Mont Blanc region, the great mountain shuts out a large of the great Alpine peaks, from this point of view, considering so far instinctively perceived in glaciers that a view of snow-mountains begins


id: 39695
title: The Story of Switzerland
author: Hug, Lina
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  earliest Swiss League, and of course Switzerland as a nation cannot Lucerne joins the League--Zurich follows--War with Austria--Glarus Bern of a military bent--Forms a West Swiss Union--Siege of Zurich--A national Reformed Church established--Spread of the new Geneva--Rousseau--Madame de Staël--Swiss savants--Zurich a Poets'' These city foundations form a chief corner-stone in the fabric of Swiss ZURICH AN EXAMPLE OF A SWISS TOWN IN THE MIDDLE AGES. ZURICH AN EXAMPLE OF A SWISS TOWN IN THE MIDDLE AGES. Swiss cities had joined in league with the Southern German towns, which to the New Learning, the great Swiss reformer was a scholar of the first absolute power for the two chief reformed cities, Zurich and Bern. [70] Rohan was a great friend to Zurich, and presented to its city Ten cantons, notably Bern, Zurich, Lucerne, and Vaud, _i.e._, the city war, making their way home through Switzerland, the Swiss people showed


id: 32823
title: Narrative of a Journey to the Summit of Mont Blanc
author: Howard, William
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  Mont Blanc; an aerial journey which the sight of this mountain has Mont Blanc is situated amidst some of the highest mountains of Savoy, stupendous glaciers, several of which are formed by the snow and ice The height of Mont Blanc, according to the observations of Saussure, gratitude for his care, to guide him to the summit of Mont Blanc. August, 1802, with seven guides, for Mont Blanc, and notwithstanding a attaining a rock only 600 feet lower than the summit of Mont Blanc. Mont Blanc, accompanied by eleven guides, reached the summit the guides pass these difficulties, inspired us with confidence: but I hundred feet of the level of Mont Blanc. our feet, those rocks which, from below, appear higher than Mont Blanc of our guides stretched themselves on the snow in the sun, and yielded The next day after our return to Chamouny, our eyes had become so much


id: 33122
title: An Impromptu Ascent of Mont Blanc
author: Le Mesurier, W. H.
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  Commencement of the ascent--Pierre Pointue--Crossing the Glacier des the summit of Mont Blanc whose diadem of snow was being warmed in colour seen on the snow, the lower being the Grands-Mulets rocks, the upper the and boy, and worked our way round the face of the mountain, the rock but rising some hundreds of feet above the snow, their wedge-like forms Mulets and the summit is the Grand Plateau, and to reach it three gigantic snow-slopes or steps, each some 900 feet high, have to be pass the night on the snow, at an elevation of 12,300 feet above the having nearly reached the foot of the last slope; then a mist came on, us to Mont Maudit--the snow suddenly gave way beneath our feet, by guides and porters, reached the Grands Mulets rocks, where they We thus reached the Grand Plateau--a long field of snow in the


id: 42758
title: True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old
author: Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.
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  If they came to a steep slope of hard snow or ice, they A glacier is formed in this way: There is a heavy fall of snow which to follow until he reaches the foot of a steep face of rock some 50 but firm wall of rock, turning back from the easy-looking slope of [Illustration: A careful party descending a Rock Peak near Zermatt forth again, we saw them on the snow slopes, a good way ahead, making the snow met with in summer, and of which at that time the best guides The Col de Miage is reached by a steep slope of ice or frozen snow, glacier and the steep upper rocks, we soon turned again to our left There was neither ice nor snow on the rocks, moon made good time over the glacier and up the snow slopes leading to


id: 43314
title: Adventures on the Roof of the World
author: Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.
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  frozen sheets of snow on his summit, the old mountain looked like some feet of rope, was standing in his steps on an ice slope quite as steep couloir, striking the ice near the rock rib within a few feet of our might still be possible to turn the ice-wall by way of the great rock rocks were steep, but so broken as to offer good hand-and foot-hold. slope of frozen snow and ice broken with rocks. climb over snow-covered rocks in a roped party is difficult enough, but reached the end of the rocks, and had nothing but snow between us and reached the final summit, and then made our way along the snow ridge below, as the rocks were free from ice, and the hold for hands and feet further side between ice and rock for a few feet before you come to a


id: 45560
title: The Lake of Geneva
author: Morris, Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest)
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  8. NYON CASTLE, LOOKING ACROSS THE LAKE TO MONT BLANC 43 is a grand old Romanesque pile, with transeptal towers like those at precipice, as we approach it from the lake; past the broad, rich valley colour of the Lake of Geneva, and of the Rhone where it first emerges, and to the right, above more old houses, the long blue wall of Jura, living in Geneva, though then eighty-three years old; and it was Beza north shore of the lake, between Rolle and Lausanne, actually abuts mountains that form so grand a background to the lake as viewed from [Illustration: NYON CASTLE, LOOKING ACROSS THE LAKE TO MONT BLANC.] Lausanne itself is built at some little height above the lake, and of the lake, into the great valley of the Rhone. higher hill, rises the tower of the old town church. lake, and the little walled town of Villeneuve, which now, however,


id: 45642
title: The Lake of Lucerne
author: Morris, Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest)
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  dramatic and striking of all the half-dozen or so greater lakes, Swiss quit the lake of Sempach, Pilatus and Rigi, like two tall sentinels-Lucerne--far more than the first view of Lake Leman from the bridges The legend of Arnold von Winkelried, like that of Tell, has been The Rigi, which confronts Pilatus across the lake in such startling of Lake Lucerne itself, in addition to the Rigi, of the Burgenstock, Uri--of the five great divisions of the Lake of Lucerne, that which lake--and Lucerne, unlike Zurich or Geneva, but to some extent like length--from the little village at its head as the Lake of Alpnach. evident along the shores of this division of the Lake of Lucerne. of the placid lake, is the little village of Sachseln, the church of the Bay of Küssnacht and to the lake of Uri; Arnold von Winkelried and [Illustration: LAKE URI FROM BRUNNEN.]


id: 45097
title: Letters from Switzerland
author: Prime, Samuel Irenæus
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  It is said that the sunset view of the city, valley, lake, and mountains way to the borders of the lake, on which stands the little town of Zug, in his Life--Altorf--Hay-Making--a Great Day. In the Hotel de la _Concorde_, the "house of peace," I found a pleasant with travellers for the Rigi: the mountain comes down so suddenly to the Long years ago the mountain torrent brought down a mass of earth with of the little land in their valley, and on the mountain sides. Mountain Scenes--Mrs. Kinney''s "Alps"--A Lady and Babe--The Great Mountain Scenes--Mrs. Kinney''s "Alps"--A Lady and Babe--The Great came to the top of the hill, the god of day was coming down from the mountain in the water with as much satisfaction as a good-looking man mountains, the lakes, valleys, and villages, that make this land so Glaciers of the Aar. The mountain of earth, rocks, ice and snow that we


id: 46074
title: Lausanne
author: Gribble, Francis Henry
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  Though Lausanne is so near Geneva, its history, in historical times, making Lausanne a pleasant place to live in. wrote it down, he and Mademoiselle Curchod--then Madame Necker--were tells us that he left Lausanne in 1758, kept Mademoiselle Curchod Gibbon.'' And Madame Necker herself wrote, love-letters by reading into them our knowledge of Madame Necker''s To us, as we look backwards, Gibbon in Lausanne society figures as speak, the author of ''Lettres de Lausanne,'' did not like Madame de Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, the story of whose love for Madame de course, Madame de Staël was free to marry her lover, and Benjamin So Madame de Staël refused to marry Benjamin Constant, and with her Madame de Staël came a second time to Lausanne to fetch him, and we ''A letter from Madame de Staël, from which I gather that, this time, Madame de Staël had lived all her


id: 18565
title: A Little Swiss Sojourn
author: Howells, William Dean
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  at the kitchen door; the roses dripped all round the house; and the lake At first we were the only people in the house besides these Swiss ladies French or Italian canton would in like manner resort to a German house, and at a little distance, where the mountain began to lift from time; like them he learned to read the Evangels, and saw their light country minister of this day; probably he was more like a New England these Swiss are like the people of our hill country in their faith, as near us we looked on at the use of one of the old-fashioned Swiss bewilderingly like the church fair of an American country town, socially place than the sad little English church-yard at Montreux. like little chalets; and there were groups of old wood-colored roofs and It looked like a watering-place that


id: 22377
title: Rollo in Switzerland
author: Abbott, Jacob
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  and mother, Rollo''s uncle George came in and said that he had concluded "Now, Rollo," said Mr. George, "I have got a great deal to do to-day, When Rollo reached the hotel he got the key of his uncle George''s room, "I believe," added Rollo, "that uncle George said it did not close till Rollo went back to the place where he had left his uncle George, and Rollo went back to the place where he had left his uncle George, and "Rollo," said Mr. George, after a short pause, "do you wish to travel in "Come, uncle George," said Rollo, "is not it time for us to get up to "See the banks of snow on that mountain, Rollo!" said Mr. George. "Why, uncle George," said Rollo, "look!" "Come, uncle George," said Rollo, "make haste. "What a snug and pleasant-looking place!" said Rollo, whispering to Mr. George as they went in.


id: 35068
title: The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
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  Besides facing the Old Port (the ancient harbor) our hotel looked on the but this _oursin_ looked a great deal more like an old, black, stopped in a shady, green place, and picnicked on those good things for King René''s castle does not look like a place for romance. human look stir to life a little way down the row. Joy said, "It would be a good place for bad dreams." The head of the the good French things, ending with fresh strawberries, great bowls of By day Vevey is a busy, prosperous-looking, though unhurried, place, its belonging to a hotel, and came to a little pond where some old men and by an old Frenchman, at a little booth across the way, and we looked battle had taken place, and Joan''s little force for the first time had A little way down the road I had to


id: 43639
title: Our Little Swiss Cousin
author: Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
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  "Carl, my boy, are you thinking of the good time to-morrow?" said a "Carl," she said to her boy that night, "you will be old enough to be "Yes, sir, I''m sure my mother will welcome you," said our little Swiss "I shall not forget you, Carl," said the little girl. Then we can tell Carl how much we thought of his little gift." "Do go at once, my dear boys," said Carl''s mother. "Wasn''t it about that time that William Tell lived?" asked Carl. be a haymaker," said Carl''s mother, who had come to the door to welcome "That is the story I heard when I was a little boy at my mother''s "Do tell us about it; I never heard the story," said Carl. The next day Carl had a chance to look around the little village. well rested, however, Carl''s father said to the boy:


id: 12404
title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1
author: nan
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  [Illustration: BERLIN: PANORAMA FROM THE TOWER OF THE TOWN HALL] went past like a panorama, the bridge of boats opened, the city glided There is the old "German house" by the bank of the Mosel, a building push our way down the Rhine we soon come to the little peaceful town of The sun sets, night comes on, the slated roofs of the houses appear as hundred years old; directly opposite is a great castellated building the end of that time orders came from the old Kaiser that the town was Citadel, by the side of a low wall--in front of an old tower--presents left, approach the large deep-roofed building between two towers. contains the most complete collection of works by old German artists this city, were taken away to adorn the town hall, churches, capitals English-like looking cathedral--as a whole; and particularly the tower. hundred different ways I arranged the little houses of painted wood


id: 11179
title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2
author: nan
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  Like all people that work much in the open, the Hungarian in old age way from the mountain regions to the south, and for two days one passes mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins. torrents, looking at a distance like long trains of foam, came Tyrol, leaving the snow behind, tho'' the white peaks of the mountains Below the pass, most beautifully situated is a little green lake called beckoning fingers, the great peaks, snow-capped or rock-summitted, call valley and pass and tunnel, puts one out on snow fields over 11,000 feet peak and glacier, the eye passes from valley to summit, resting on that white snow peaks, with their great glistening glaciers below, showing in It took a long time coming down that little bit of cliff, and for a few time through valleys of ice, climbed white and slippery slopes, crossed


