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Switzerland / by William Beattie ; illustrated, in a series of views taken expressly for this work, by W.H. Bartlett.
- Beattie, William, 1793-1875.
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Switzerland / by William Beattie ; illustrated, in a series of views taken expressly for this work, by W.H. Bartlett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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- Found on image 13 / 318…holas...Brieg...Geological Theories...Springs...(Original Lines) ............. 48—o3 THE SIMPLON.—Description of this celebrated Pass...Dr. Johnson’s Route...Galleries...Gondo... Descent into Italy... Val d’Ossola...Zoological and Botanical Details...Pictet’s Apparatus for Mine- ralogists...Maxims...Directions and Memoranda fo...
- Found on image 14 / 318…cene in the Valley of St. Nicholas ... 53 Brieg, with the Ascent of the Simplon . . 55 The Bernese Alps 57 The Ponte Alto 58 To face Pa ye Gallery of Gondo 59 Val Vedro, or Doveria, Simplon 61 Val D’Ossola 62 Town of Lugano, from the Vineyards ... 70 Magadino, Lago Maggiore 71 Convent of La Madonna del S...
- Found on image 126 / 318 (page 58)…ter- rupted the communication. Only two years after its completion, the bridge of the Oesbach was entirely swept away by an avalanche.—The gallery of Gondo, or the Great Gallery, as it is called, par excellence, is, in point of extent, situation, and execution, a phenomenon in the history of human art and...
- Found on image 132 / 318 (page 60)… what should we think of the traveller who sneered at its architecture, because it did not equal in magnificence that of St. Peter’s ? A little below Gondo a small chapel marks the extreme boundary of the Yallais. The government of this canton is democratic, and the Bishop of Sion the chief magistrate. A...
- Found on image 132 / 318 (page 60)…il possesses the legislative authority, and pronounces decisively in all questions of public and private interest. “ After traversing the solitude of Gondo,* and the somewhat less savage defiles * In the Vignette accompanying the present work, the reader will observe a striking sketch of this dismal villag...
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