LONDON:

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD-STREET-HILL,

DOCTORS' COMMONS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

Pp. 152.

CANTONS OF ST. GALL AND APPENZELL.-Werdenberg and Altstetten... Feudal Customs...
Abbot of St. Gall...Struggle for Liberty by the Inhabitants... Rudolf of Werdenberg... Battle of
Wolfshalden... Village of Gais... Mineral Springs...Herisau... Wild Kirchlein, or Chapel of the
(for desock in the text, read) Desert... Vesper Hymn of the Appenzellers... Reentrance to St. Gall...
Thurgau, its Commerce, Population, &c....Disturbances during the French Revolution... The
Abbot Beda... Toggenburg...Story of the "Beautiful Ida"

THURGAU AND SCHAFFHAUSEN.-Soil, Products, and Manufactures... Lake and Town of
Constance...Council of Constance, A. D. 1415... Sentence and Execution of John Huss... Emperor
Sigismund...Anecdote.. Eclipse of the Sun...The Cathedral... Village and Palace of Friederich-
shafen... Chateau of Wolfsberg... Plappart War... Geology... Æninghen... Canton of Schaffhausen...
Mode of Government, Taxation, &c....Literary Societies... Falls of Schaffhausen... The Bridge of
Grubenmann... Winterthour... Baths of Lohrlibad... Descent upon Zurich...Scenery... Arrival...
Hotel de l'Epée...Episode... Historical Retrospect...Civil and Religious Institutions... Death of
Lavater and Irminguen...Scenery of the Lake

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57-71

AARGAU, BÂLE, AND SOLEURE.-Inhabitants, Religion, &c....Arau... Baths of Baden and
Schintznach... Sepulchre of Albert I.... Brugg... Königsfelden... Assassination of Albert... Castle of
Hapsburg... Lauffenburg... Rheinfelden... Stratagem of Falkenstein... Route towards Basle
38-48
CITY AND CANTON OF BASLE.-Political Retrospect...City and University... Cathedral...
Suburbs and Soil... Field and Battle of St. James...Anecdotes... Retreat of the Dauphin of France 48-57
CANTONS OF SOLEURE AND NEUCHATEL.-Ruined Fortresses... Political Condition...
Revenue...General Description of the Town of Soleure...Climate...Views... Hermitage... The Pastor
of Stanz and the Hermit of Saxeln...Count Rudolf of Kyburg...Greder... Haffner... Barbara de Roll
...Baths of Attesholtz...Geological and Botanical Particulars...Canton of Neuchatel... Phenomena
...The Six Valleys... The Faery Mount... Val Travers... Town of Neuchatel... Political Condition...
Progress of Education, and Religion
CANTON OF BERN.-Rousseau's Sanctuary...Island of St. Pierre...Lake of Bienne... Aarberg... Battle
of Laupen...The City of Bern...Cathedral... Public Institutions... The Enghi... Bears...Hofwyl...
De Fellenberg... Benevolent System of Education... Donnerbuhel... Monument of Madame Langhans
Thun...Spietz... The Simmenthal... Interesting Migration... Hints to Invalids... Grotto of St. Beat...
Untersee..." La belle Bateliere"... Interlaken... Patriotic Festival...The Dance of Death...Castle of
Unspunnen... Gorge of Lutschinen... Natural Canals... Lauterbrunnen... Fall of the Stubbach... An
Avalanche and Landslip... The Wengen Alp... Grindelwald...The Jungfrau... Scene of Byron's
"Manfred"... Grindelwald... Saturday Night... Wonderful Escape... The Reichenbach The
Valley of Meyringhen... Inhabitants of Hasli...Cascade of the Giesbach..." Ranz des Vaches"...
The Emmenthal... Geological Facts...Commerce...Magistrates... Clergy, &c.
LUCERN AND UNTERWALDEN.-Valley of Entlibuch...Historical Sketch... Town and Council
of Lucern...The Hof-brücke...General Description... Battle of Sempach...Death of the Avoyer
Keller... Clara Wendel... The Righi...Mount Pilate... Slide of Alpnach... Grotto of St. Dominic...
Stantz... Arnold of Winkelried...Sarnen...Castle of Landenberg...Lake of Lungern... The Brunig...
Legend of the Wetterhorn... Höllenplatte... Hospice on the Grimsel*... The Blumlis Alp...The
Kander...The Ghemmi

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72-105

106-128

CANTONS OF FRIBOURG AND VAUD.-Internal Resources... Manners... Rural Festivals...
Town of Morat...City of Fribourg...College...Cathedral... Two Languages... New Iron Suspension
Bridge... Hermitage of St. Magdalen... The Ossuary... Battle of Morat... Route towards Avenches...
Payerne Y verdun...Sketch of its History... Pestalozzi, and his System... Battle of Grandson...Detail
Charles the Bold...Approach to Lausanne... Prospect from the Signal Station... Description
of the Town... The Place de la Palud...Town House...The University... Chateau, Cantonale...
Cathedral...Gibbon's Residence...Public Cemetery...John Kemble... Village and Port of Ouchy...
Lord Byron... Montreux... Meillerie... Clarens...Steam Boats... Blonay...Baths of Alliaz...Vevay...
Festival of the Vignerons...Details...Castle of Chillon...Sketch...Chateau Wufflens...Hospice
and Pass of the Great St. Bernard...Conclusion

128-152

• Situated on the edge of a small lake, called the Klein-see, varying from 35 to 63 feet in depth, and said to contain fish.
The other lake is about 300 yards higher, on the Vallais side. The Hospice is now used as an inn, and travellers accom-
modated at the usual charges. Compare this note with the description in the text.

N.B. The above Volume will be found to contain :-Historical Sketches...Statistics...Society and Manners...
Education, Literature, and Science...Medical Notes on Climate...Advice to Tourists and Residents...
Mineral and Thermal Waters of the Alps...Their Mineralogy, Botany, and Geology...Biographical and
Characteristic Sketches...Anecdotes and Traditions...Popular Customs and Amusements...Picturesque and
Religious Fêtes...Arts...Agriculture...Produce...Manufactures; with much diversified matter, the results of
personal intercourse with the country and people of Switzerland.

The poetry interspersed through this volume, unless where otherwise expressed, is original.

• Compare the dimensions, published by authority of Government, with the description in the text.
LENGTH, or Distance between the Porticos, 265 metres, equal to 885 feet (Canton of Vaud), 818 feet royal, or 905
feet, Bernese measure.

ELEVATION of the unsupported Bridge above the River, 51 metres, equal to 170 feet; 157 feet; and 174 feet.
The BREADTH, 6 metres and 35 centimetres; the Foot-path at each side, 88 centimetres.
Note. The metre here employed is equal to 3 feet, 3.370 inches, English measure.
however, all differ. Compared with the Menai Bridge, the balance stands thus:-

The four printed statements,

SWITZERLAND.

UN mélange étonnant de la nature sauvage, et de la nature cultivée. Au levant, les fleurs du printempsau midi, les fruits de l'automne-au nord, les glaces de l'hiver-tous les climats dans le même lieu-toutes les saisons dans le même instant.-ROUSSEAU.

HELVETIA, thine the prowess of the Spartan!
Well hath thy hand responded to thy heart;
Deep have thy fields of Morât and Morgarten
Engraved thy name in glory's dazzling chart!
What pulse but thrills-what spirit doth not start
To tread the soil thy patriot champions freed!
To list the tales thy Alps and lakes impart―
The hallowed flame at Freedom's shrine to feed,
And live like TELL, or die like WINKELRIED.-B.

WERDENBERG and Altstetten-the principal towns, or rather villages, in our route-are both distinguished in the page of history as the centre of important transactions, to some portion of which we may advert as we skirt the cantons of Appenzell and St. Gall.

In the beginning of the fifteenth century, when the exploits of the confederate Swiss had awakened both envy and admiration among the pastoral inhabitants of Appenzell, the latter were mortified by the humiliating comparison between themselves and their more fortunate neighbours. Subjects of the abbey of St. Gall, they were burdened with taxes, insulted by the collectors, and treated as slaves rather than subjects of a religious establishment. Arbitrary measures were enforced by the servants of the abbot, and extortion openly practised in the pretended discharge of their functions. One of these, the intendant of Schwendi, having imposed a heavy and arbitrary tax upon the produce of the dairy, whoever attempted to evade the payment was attacked by two ferocious dogs; and if he appealed to law, was not only denied all redress, but heard with derision, and dismissed with insult.

The governor of Appenzell continued, in the exercise of his claim as heriot, to harass and exasperate the people in a manner which nothing but the force of habitual degradation and suffering, and a sense of their own inferiority in numerical strength, could have tolerated. As one of his established claims, the governor was heir to the best suit of clothes left by every individual who died within his district; and in one instance, where, in the case of a poor family, this right had been disputed or overlooked, he caused the body to be taken from the grave, and stript of the dress in which the children had buried their parent. Cases of similar outrage against humanity we pass over: but at length the indignation of the inhabitants, kindled into action, was directed to the eyries of these human vultures, whom, with exemplary forbearance, they merely expelled from the scenes and exercise of their iniquitous practices. The abbot, alarmed at these symptoms of freedom, appealed to his allies, the ten imperial towns of Suabia, who, regardless of the representations made by the deputies of Appenzell, reinstated the governors in office. These, flushed with the victory thus obtained, and instigated by revenge, redoubled their exactions, and inflicted upon the inhabitants every curse of feudal despotism. In the mean time, the inhabitants of St. Gall began, also, to feel and resent certain imposts on the part of the abbot; and, instigated by the same fears and interests, entered into an alliance with their neighbours of Appenzell for the mutual protection of their ancient rights. To defeat this, the abbot increased the rigour of his government in Appenzell, refused to listen to their complaints, and laboured, by menace and intrigue, to shake them off from the new alliance with St. Gall. This course led to hostilities, and the people, denied every other means of redress, appealed to arms. At a meeting of the Suabian towns the alliance was annulled, and the Appenzellers, deserted by St. Gall, addressed themselves to the Confederacy. Schwyz was the first, and the only canton to receive them into alliance; while Glaris contented itself with granting free permission to all who chose to enter the lists of liberty, to join the cause with Appenzell. This was no sooner known than the Suabian authorities, after forwarding a strong remonstrance, which was disregarded, followed it up, at the instance of the abbot, by a speedy invasion, in which great bodies of horse and foot were marched upon St. Gall, where they were received by the abbot with feasting and rejoicing.

Early on the morning of the 15th May, 1403, a numerous body of cavaliers, brilliantly harnessed, marched at the head of five thousand infantry, and crossing the Linsenbühel, proceeded to occupy the heights of Voeglinseck, where the hamlet of Speicher is situated. The watchmen stationed along