his own part, he has brought to the task the experience gained in four different visits to the country, in the course of which he left but a small portion of it unexplored. Notwithstanding this, he cannot speak of the Hand-book for Switzerland with less diffidence than he did of the volumes relating to Germany which have preceded it; and he must equally trust in the indulgence of his readers to excuse numerous inaccuracies which no doubt pervade it. He has, however, no hesitation in speaking of the merits of the second section of this volume, relating to Savoy and Piedmont, which has been prepared by a friend and fellow-traveller, most intimately acquainted with those countries, which he has explored in almost every direction, and on many different occasions. The routes contained in it possess great interest, from the want of other information respecting the country they traverse, from the extreme accuracy with which they are described, and from their being derived, not from books, but from personal knowledge. They will probably be the means of throwing open to English travellers a region little visited hitherto, but possessing, from its romantic beauties, the highest claim to attention. * * 1838. *The present edition has been very carefully revised, and corrected as far as possible, down to the present time; some new routes have been added, and others have been re-written. The admirable work of Professor Forbes, Travels through the Alps,' the most remarkable contribution to their history since that of De Saussure, has furnished the Editor with valuable information for this edition.-1846. * SWITZERLAND. LIST OF ROUTES. *The names of many places are necessarily repeated in several Routes; but to facilitate reference, they are printed in Italics only in those Routes under which they are fully ROUTE described. 1 Basle to Berne by the Munster Thal (Val Moutiers) and Bienne-Ascent of the Weissenstein 2 Basle to Schaffhausen. 3 Basle to Soleure, the Weissenstein, and Bienne, by Liesthal and the Ober Hauenstein 4 Basle to Lucerne, by the Unter-Hauenstein, Aarburg, and Sempach Olten, 13 5 Basle to Aarau, by the Staffelegg 6 Basle to Zürich, by Brugg, the Baths of Schintznach, and Baden 7 Schaffhausen to Constance 8 Schaffhausen to Zürich, by Eglisau 9 Zürich to Constance, by Winterthur 10 Zürich to St. Gall 15 16 20 25 29 29 Berne to Thun, Interlachen, Lauterbrunnen; over the Wengern Alp to Grindelwald; Ascent of the Faulhorn; over the Scheideck to Meyringen; and by Brienz, back to Thun 26 Lauterbrunnen to Kandersteg PAGE 66 66 71 by the Passes of the Seefinen, Furca, and Dündengrat 87 27 Lauterbrunnen to Kandersteg by the Tschingel Glacier and 27a Passage of the Strahleck from Grindelwald to the Grimsel 28 Pass of the Grimsel Meyringen to Ober Gestelen and Brieg 29 Pass of the Gries Ober Gestelen to Domo d'Ossola, by the Val Formazza (Pommat) and Falls of the Tosa. 30 Pass of the Furca, from the Grimsel to Hospital, on the St. Gothard, by the Glacier of the Rhone 31 Pass of the Surenen, from Stanzstadt, and Buochs, to Altorf, by the convent of Engelberg and the base of the Titlis 32 Pass of the Susten-Meyrin gen to Wasen 33 Pass of the Joch-Meyrin gen to Engelberg 34 Pass of St. Gothard,-from Flüelen, on the Lake of Lucerne, to Bellinzona 88 90 91 97 99 100 102 103 104 61 Aosta to Sion, by the Valpelline and Col de CollonEvolena to Zermatt, by the Col d'Errin 66 Constance to St. Gall, by the Lake of Constance 67 Constance or St. Gall to Coire, by Rorschach, Rheineck, Ragatz, and the Baths of Pfeffers 68 St. Gall to Alstetten and Coire by the Baths of Gais, Appenzell, and the Pass of the Stoss, with excursions to the Weissbad, the Wildkirchlein, and the Hoch Sentis 71 ix PAGE 188 . 191 194 . 202 69 St. Gall to Rapperschwyl, on the Lake of Zürich, by Herisau and Heinrichsbad. 206 Schaffhausen to Coire, by Toggenburg and Wildhaus. 207 72 Wesen to Glarus, the Baths the of Stachelberg, and Pantenbrücke.-Pass of the Klausen to Altorf 73 Baths of Stachelberg to Brigels, in the Valley of the Vorder-Rhein, over the Kistengrat 74 Rapperschwyl to the Rigi and to Schwytz, by Einsiedeln, with excursion to Morgarten 208 211 212 75 Schwytz to Glarus, by the Muotta-thal, the Pass of the Pragel, and the Klönthal 219 75a From Muotta to the Baths of Stachelberg in the Lintthal, by the Bisithal. 221 222 76 Glarus to Coire, up the Sernft-thal 77 Coire to Andermatt on the St. Gothard, up the Valley of the Vorder-Rhein, to Dissentis, and across the Oberalp 224 78 Pass of the Lukmanier-Dissentis to Olivone, in the Val Blegno 81 The Prettigau; Mayenfeld to Fideris and Davos 227 228 |