Volume 1
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…s of the Tourmente or Snow-hurricane...Loss of Lives...Mineral Treasures of this Mountain...Village of Hospital...Wreck of a Pine Forest... Valley of Ursern...Devil’s Bridge on the Reuss...Sanguinary Conflict...Gorge of Schollenen.. Valley of the Reuss...Pfatfensprung, or Friar’s Leap...Village of Amstag...Approach to Alt...
- Found on image 14 / 318…n the Roffla 103 Passage of the Cardinells 110 Scene on the Tessin, at Monte Fiotino . . .121 Airolo, St. Gothard 125 L’PIofital, St. Gothard 130 The Devil’s Bridge 133 Tell’s Chapel and the Meadow of Grutli . . 142 Tell’s Chapel, Lake Uri 151 The Abbey of Einsiedeln 163 Baths of Pfeffers 177 Gorge of the Tamina ...
- Found on image 249 / 318 (page 133)…nd likely to become the object of still further improvements. The next object of attraction, and which we reach by a steep descent, is the far- famed Devil’s Bridge—constructed originally, it is stated, in 1118, by Giraldus, abbot of Einsiedeln. The span of the arch is seventy-five feet, and its height, from the surface of t...
- Found on image 250 / 318 (page 134)…sity; and never was there theatre more congenial for the display of wildest passions—or more in unison with every imaginable horror, than that of the Devil’s Bridge. But, to see and to feel this in all its force, the spec- tator must be alone with nature. The sanguinary conflict alluded to, and for which this drea...
- Found on image 251 / 318 (page 135)…, the French, in effecting their retreat, blew up part of the Urnerloch, so as to impede the enemy’s advance, and destroyed the principal part of the Devil’s Bridge, by which the communication, for a time, was effectually cut off. The Russians, nevertheless, cleared the gallery of the Urnerloch, restored the commu...
- Found on image 251 / 318 (page 135)…penetrated the dark mountain cavern of Ursern; and made themselves masters of a bridge which connects two mountains, and justly bears the name of the Devil's Bridge. Though the enemy had destroyed it, the progress of our victorious soldiers was not impeded. Planks were tied together with the officers’ sashes, and ...
- Found on image 251 / 318 (page 135)… post of the St. Gothard, and, about four o’clock, met the outposts of the Imperialists, and forced them to fall back upon their entrenchments at the Devil’s Bridge; these rested upon the rocks on the right bank of the torrent of the Reuss. The French presented themselves at the bridge, and, charging the Austrians...
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