A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SWITZERLAND, AND THE ALPS OF SAVOY AND PIEDMONT. Fourteenth Edition, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED; WITH TRAVELLING MAPS, JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET; PARIS: A. & W. GALIGNANI & CO.; XAVIER & BOYVEAU. PREFACE. THE Handbook for Switzerland owes its success, and the favour of travellers, and the number of imitators it has found in France and Germany, to the circumstance that its information was drawn from practical know ledge of the country, gained on the spot; and that it was not a mere compilation from other books. The author, in the first instance by his own travels through the country, and afterwards by the aid of experienced editors whom he has called in to revise the book, has endeavoured to bring down the information of every edition to the time of its appearance, taking note of all changes and improvements that have occurred. The Handbook was the first guide which, instead of stopping short north of the Great Chain, carried travellers down to the more sunny and beautiful peaks and valleys of the Italian Alps. It still remains the only complete single Guide-book for Savoy and Piedmont, as well as for Switzerland. These regions, previously a terra incognita to Englishmen, are now equally resorted to and held in as great repute for the beauty and grandeur of their scenery. This fourteenth edition of the Handbook has not merely been revised: for the most part it has been re-modelled, and an addition of nearly onethird new matter, including many new routes, has been introduced. Plans of the principal towns are inserted, and a carefully prepared Map of Savoy and Piedmont, which it is hoped may prove of use in those countries hitherto so destitute of good maps. This edition is corrected as far as possible up to the time of publication, and contains notices of the railways which now bring Switzerland almost, as it were, to our own door. An Index has been prepared for the Swiss Handbook, independent of the Section relating to Savoy and Piedmont; and as each is furnished with a map, the two parts may be bound up separately for convenience, without injuring the completeness of either. * *The Knapsack Guide to Switzerland, Savoy, and Piedmont, 2nd Edition, Corrected,' furnishes a more portable and succinct Guide to those countries. SWITZERLAND. IN SWITZERLAND - MAPS DANGERS OF ALPINE TRAVELLING-PRECAUTIONS TO BE ADOPTED § 13. OBJECTS MOST DESERVING OF NOTICE IN SWITZERLAND— § 17. AVALANCHES-SNOW-STORMS-FLOODS |