Excerpt from A Child of the Alps The little town of Ilanz has a long and an illustrious his tory. It stands with all its wooden towers and bridges on the banks of the Upper Rhine. It has fine houses, nobly planned and painted Old churches, too', and many treasured archives. It has valuable orchards where some Of the finest fruit of all the Alps is ripened, and where the sweetest honey is gathered by the bees. Also, like many other little hidden cities, Ilanz is pleased with her own life and doings; and her people are a proud people, well-informed, and given to foreign commerce. But the party of English travellers who, late one summer evening, came hurrying back across the Alps from Italy, and who found themselves stranded here, so much against their wills and calculations, knew nothing of all these matters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.