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where Zwingli, the earliest Swiss reformer, preached. 

 The prettiest view is from the new stone bridge which 

 is thrown across the Limmat just where it emerges 

 from the lake. The stream, like all those that proceed 

 from these lakes, is full, and clear almost as glass, of 

 a fine blue tint ; it rushes with great rapidity, but is 

 still and even. The view extends up the lake to its 

 middle, where a slight change in its direction inter- 

 cepts further view ; beyond rise some low mountains ; 

 a little farther a higher range overtops these, and these 

 are again overlooked by the Alps of Glarus, Schwyz, 

 etc., with thin tall peaks and brilliant glaciers. The 

 shores of the lake are highly cultivated and thickly 

 covered with little manufacturing villages. This is a 

 Protestant canton. I attended church and heard a 

 preacher who seemed to be very earnest, but as his 

 language was an unknown tongue, there was little 

 chance of my being edified, and I spent the remainder 

 of the day at my room. The new hotel here is ex- 

 tremely good. Early yesterday morning I prepared 

 myself for a pedestrian excursion over the finest moun- 

 tain regions of Switzerland, which will take me about 

 ten days, if I do not get tired of it and give it up. 

 Not that I intend to walk all the way, which would be 

 a great loss of time, but to avail myself of steamboats, 

 etc., along lakes, and a diligence when I am on routes 

 which they traverse, knowing full well that there will 

 remain many weary and difficult miles that can only 

 be passed by the pedestrian. So I have packed up my 

 trunk and sent it on to Geneva, at the opposite corner 

 of Switzerland. The garcon of the hotel purchased a 

 knapsack for me. . . . Thus equipped, my knapsack 

 on my back, the Guide to Switzerland in one pocket, 

 and Keller's excellent map in the other, I set out on 



