SWITZERLAND. 



Wiirtemberg dollar, and French five franc piece, 

 are in most general circulation. The reckoning by 

 Swiss franca (sixteen to a louis-d'or) is pretty 

 general. In the hotels they reckon much by French 

 francs. Any one who intends to visit all the 

 cantons can proceed in the following order either 

 through Constance, Schaffhausen, Eglisau, and 

 Winterthur, or through Lindau, the lake of Con- 

 stance, Iloschach, and St Gall, to Zurich (see 

 Voyage de Zuric A Zuric, 1818); then over mount 

 Albis to Zug, over lake Zug to Arth, at the foot 

 of the Kighi, of which Fuessly and Keller have 

 published beautiful sketches, with a description by 

 J. II. Meyer (Views of Mount Righi, drawn from 

 nature, Zurich, 1809); over the lake to Lucerne, 

 which Businger describes in his guide Lucerne 

 and its Environs, with a good Map of the Lake of 

 the four Forest-Towns (Lucerne, 1811). The 

 traveller now enters on the route over the moun- 

 tains. The way leads through Stanzstadt, Stanz, 

 the abbey of Engelburg, and over the Surenian 

 Alps; or from Stanz through Buochs, over the 

 lake of the four Forest-Towns, Rutli, Tell's Chapel 

 to Altorf. Thence you pass on the great road 

 from German Switzerland to Italy, in three days, 

 to Bellinzona. Through Ursern, the road leads 

 from Altorf to Dissentis, and the adjacent springs 

 of the Rhine ; and further through Trons to Coire, 

 where a traveller who wishes to visit Graubtindten 

 (the Grisons), stops. Among the principal curiosi- 

 ties of the Grisons are the valley of Tomlesch, the 

 bridge of Solis, which is the highest in Europe, the 

 Via Mala, the glaciers of the Rhine, the valley of 

 Misocco, the glacier of Bernina. From Coire, the 

 traveller pursues his journey through Sennwald to 

 Appenzell and Gais, and then through Utznach and 

 Einsiedeln ; or, if he does not intend to visit first 

 the bath at Pfeffers, through Panyx, Elm, and 

 Matt, to Glarus, and thence to Einsiedeln, from 

 which he returns, over Schweitz and the ruins of 

 Goldau, to Lucerne. Then he goes through the 

 charming Entlibuch, or over the battle-field of 

 Sempach, through Zopfingen, Morgenthal, Hindel- 

 bank, Hofwyl, to Berne. From Berne, the traveller 

 proceeds over Thur, in four to six days (including 

 the time occupied in returning through Interlaken 

 and Brientz), to the beautiful Oberland, to Lauter- 

 brunnen, to Staubach, over the little Scheideck to 

 Grindelwald, at the foot of the Jungfrau (first 

 ascended by the two Meyers in Aarau, 1811 and 

 1812; (see Travels over the Glaciers of Seme, 

 Aarau, 1813), and of the Schreckhorn, and over 

 the great Scheideck to Haslithal. From Merz- 

 ringen, the chief place in the valley, those who 

 have not travelled from Altorf to the hospice of 

 St Gothard can go by the new road through the 

 Susten valley. The hospice on the Grimsel, 5887 

 feet high, is particularly worthy to be visited. 

 Thence the traveller proceeds to the glaciers of 

 the Rhone. From Berne he goes through Murten 

 and Avenches, or Friburg, Murten, Avenches, 

 Payerne, Lausanne, Aubonne, to Geneva. Thence 

 he proceeds to the icy heights and glaciers of the 

 valley of Chamouni, either through Thonon, Evian, 

 Simoens, and Sixte, or through Bonneville and 

 Salenche, to Servoz ; thence on to Chamouni, at 

 the foot of Mont Blanc, which requires three days. 

 The glacier of Montanvert and La Flechiere, oppo- 

 site to it, are commonly the limit in this direction. 

 The best guides are Saussure's and Bourrit's works, 

 Pictet's Itineraire, and Gottschalk's description 

 (the Valley of Chamouni, Halle, 1811), with a 



map. In 1812, Lori published some beautiful 

 views of the valley of Chamouni. If the tiaveller 

 does not return from Chamouni to Geneva, he 

 either ttikes a difficult path through the valley of 

 Valontine, and over the village of Trent, or t lie 

 Col de Balme, to Martigny, at the foot of the 

 Great Bernard. From this place, one may go over 

 the Simplou road to the Borromean islands (to go 

 and return, six or seven days are necessary), or 

 over St Branchier to the Val de B agues (where, 

 in 1818, owing to the fall of the glacier Getroz, 

 lake Mauvoisin broke through its banks, and spread 

 fearful devastation); then to the hospice on St 

 Bernard, and back to Martigny, which requires 

 three days. A good map of the mountain was 

 published by Lapie (Paris, 1803). A full descrip- 

 tion of it is given by \Vibel of Berne in his Vtiytri/a 

 Pittoreaque dcpuis Lausanne juscju'au Mont Uvr- 

 nard, ornamented with fourteen coloured plates. 

 From Martigny, the traveller goes through St 

 Maurice, by the Pissevache, or, by a circuitous 

 way, wh'c.h well rewards him for his trouble, 

 through Bitten, and along the new road, so called, 

 over mount Azeindaz, to Bex (where the remark- 

 able salt mines may be seen), and then through 

 Aigle and Clarens to Vevay, whence the traveller 

 may proceed by water to Geneva, if he does not 

 wish to go by land through Lausanne. On the 

 opposite shore of the lake, the road passes through 

 Meillerie and Evian to Geneva; then through Orbe, 

 adjacent to the beautiful valley of the Lac du Joux 

 and the valley of Romainmotier, to Yverdun, and 

 along the lake to Neufchatel, whence a visit may 

 be paid to the manufacturing villages Chaux de 

 Fonds and Locle (in the neighbourhood of the 

 latter is the Saut de Doubs); from Neufchatel 

 through Bienne, or Aarberg, to Soleure, near which 

 rises the Weissenstein, affording from its summit a 

 fine view of the wide valley that divides the Jura 

 from the Alps. It is one of the most splendid 

 prospects in Switzerland. If a person wishes to 

 go through the Miinster valley to Basle, he must 

 return to Bienne ; and, following the directions in 

 Bridel's text to Birrman's Voyage Pittoresque de 

 Sale a Bienne, two days are requisite to pass over 

 the road leading through Pierre Pertius, an ancient 

 Roman gate of rock, forty feet high. If one desires 

 to visit the principal curiosities in Switzerland in 

 six or eight weeks, it is best to pursue the follow- 

 ing course: Schaffhausen, Zurich, Zug, Righi, 

 Lucerne, Schweitz, Altorf (perhaps to the hospice 

 on mount Gothard), Berne, Oberland, to Meiringcn ; 

 from Berne to Lausanne, Geneva; thence to the 

 valley of Chamouni, to Chamouni or Martigny 

 (perhaps along the Simplon road to Domo d'Ossola, 

 or to the hospice on mount Bernard), and, in the 

 way before mentioned, through Bex, Vevay, Yver- 

 dun, &c., to Basle. In two or three weeks, the 

 following journey may be made: through Basle, 

 Munsterthal, Bienne, Soleure, Berne, Oberland, 

 Hofwyl, Lucerne, Righi, Schweitz, Zug, Albis, 

 Zurich, Schaffhausen, Constance. If a traveller 

 wishes to visit particularly French Switzerland and 

 the Savoy Alps, he can perform the following 

 journey in about twenty-five days: Schaffhausen, 

 Baden, Aarau, Berne, Friburg, Vevay, Bex, St 

 Maurice, Martigny, Val de Bagnes, Col de Balme, 

 Chamouni, Geneva, Lausanne, Bienne, Munster- 

 thal, Basle. Since Aberly, the following artists 

 have distinguished themselves by views of scenes 

 in Switzerland: Rieter, Konig, Hegi, Fuessly, 

 Keller, Birrmann, Wocher, and the two Loris 



