This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...we had nothing left to see that could surpass it in grandeur. When we came to the Alps, however, we could tell a different tale; but I must not anticipate. I will only add, that this pass of the Jura has its own peculiar sublimities and beauties, which, not even the surpassing " Alps on Alps" can ever make us forget, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...we had nothing left to see that could surpass it in grandeur. When we came to the Alps, however, we could tell a different tale; but I must not anticipate. I will only add, that this pass of the Jura has its own peculiar sublimities and beauties, which, not even the surpassing " Alps on Alps" can ever make us forget, or cease to remember with admiration. Berne is a peculiar looking city--the second stories of the houses projecting over the streets so as to form arcades below, in which are the stores. The armorial bearings of this city and canton, is the bear, figures of which animal are represented everywhere--on columns, pumps, houses, signs, &c., as well as in the live animal, numbers of which are kept at the city's expense, for the admiration of the citizens and of strangers. There is also a curious clock here, on one of the churches, that has many fantastic figures, that come out, cut various ridiculous antics, march around, strike the hour, &c., in a very funny manner, to the amusement of the crowds, who, it would appear never tire at this puppet-show. It is as ridiculous and foolish as the celebrated mechanical clock at Strasburg is sublime and scientific. Fribourg is romantically situated on the verge of a perpendicular precipice, from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet high, overhanging the small river Saarine, which winds along in serpentine form at the bottom, as if it had formed this deep fissure in the solid rock; the ravine, at the bottom of which, roars and foams this turbulent little stream, is crossed by two wire suspension bridges, one of which is the longest, of a single curve, in the world; its length being nine hundred and forty-one feet. That over the Menai Straits is five hundred and eighty feet. The elevation ...
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