Excerpt from Switzerland: Picturesque and Descriptive During a very long period, Switzerland and the Alps have been among the most beautiful regions sought by millions of tourists from all parts of the world. They display the greatest scenic attractions of Europe in their grandest form, and especially for American visitors have a special charm that is most seductive. In going or coming, the noble Rhine: the Great River of the German Fatherland, is usually fol lowed, up or down, and thus becomes a part of the popular Swiss tour. In the following pages there have been compiled, largely as the result of personal observation, much of the scenic description, history and romance of these charming regions, which have had such an im portant share in European contentions and develop ment in the past, as-they now contribute so greatly to the pleasure of the army of the world's travellers. 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.