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 152 / 318 (page 72)…lum from the charity of strangers. More than a hundred of this proscribed colony, among * The View is taken from the edge of a ravine looking towards Bellinzona—the termination of the Lake is seen, and the Ticino gleaming as it winds along the level plain to enter the Lake. y whom were many affluent and learned m...
- Found on image 161 / 318 (page 75)…the southern flank of the Alps, and, with the exception of the plain and lake of Lugano, all opening into the principal valley watered by the Ticino. Bellinzona, Lugano, and Locarno, are, each in its turn and for a period of six years, the three capitals of the canton, which is divided into eight districts, an...
- Found on image 161 / 318 (page 75)…seven Italian bailiwicks, four of which, Lugano and Locarno, Mendrisio and Val-Maggior, belonged to the twelve first cantons; while the three others, Bellinzona, Val-Riviera, and Val-Blegno, were subject to the cantons of Uri, Schwytz, and Unterwald. During the late revolution, owing to some want of accustomed...
- Found on image 165 / 318 (page 77)…s his winter with unfading leaves. In all that respects climate, architecture, soil, produce, population, social habits, and costume, the approach to Bellinzona is purely Italian. The grand and imposing feature in the distance is the great castle, formerly the Castel d’Uri, backed by two other commanding fort...
- Found on image 166 / 318 (page 78)…roops and territory, being suddenly apprised that the Swiss confederates had made over the whole Levantine to the barons of Saxe, hereditary lords of Bellinzona, for a very inconsiderable sum, and failing to effect a counter-treaty with them on the terms he had offered, made a precipitate march into the disput...
- Found on image 166 / 318 (page 78)…iderable sum, and failing to effect a counter-treaty with them on the terms he had offered, made a precipitate march into the disputed district, took Bellinzona by a coup-de-main, laid the whole territory under contribution, and compelled the inhabitants to take an oath of allegiance to him as their rightful ...
- Found on image 185 / 318 (page 89)…francs, and to charge themselves with the extra expense of completing and improving that portion of the route which connects the Grison frontier with Bellinzona. This liberal offer, however, was met by numerous interruptions and objections on the part of Austria, and every means employed to defeat a measure wh...
- Found on image 233 / 318 (page 123)…sky; but from every height and hill, torrents, like threads of foam in the distance, leaped and roared into the Lugano. As we advanced, the valley of Bellinzona presented the appearance of a half-drained lake, which, but the day before, had offered a picture of beauty and fertility. Much of it was still under...
- Found on image 233 / 318 (page 123)… extended. It seemed, indeed, as if the lake had suddenly risen some hundred feet above its ordinary level, rolled its waves right up to the walls of Bellinzona, and then as suddenly retired within its natural limits. The two rivers, the Ticino and Moesa, which here unite from the St. Gothard and Bernardino, h...
- Found on image 234 / 318 (page 124)…d the red cataract like a sea of fire. Having briefly described the Val-Levantine, and—as far as our limits would permit—the situation and scenery of Bellinzona, in a former part of our work, we now return from the shores of Como, and re-entering the Tessin, follow the course of the river to its source on the ...
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