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…is...Hinter Rhein...Land of Tell ..Route of tiie Bernardino...The Rhine...Succession of Cataracts...Castle of Barenburg... Andeer. . Gorge of the Via Mala... Enterprising spirit in constructing Bridges... Tusis... Inundations of the Nola ...Village of Reichenau...Tscharner’s Institution...Chur, or Coire......
- Found on image 14 / 318…2 Mount Bernardino, with the Hospice and Lake 85 Village of Splugen, and Bridge 88 Bridge over the Rhine, near Suvers .... 90 Gorge of the Rhine, Via Mala 91 Second Bridge, Via Mala 92 Gallery' in the Trou Perdu, or Verlohren-loch 93 Fall of the Rhine in the Roffla 103 Passage of the Cardinells 110 Scen...
- Found on image 14 / 318…e Hospice and Lake 85 Village of Splugen, and Bridge 88 Bridge over the Rhine, near Suvers .... 90 Gorge of the Rhine, Via Mala 91 Second Bridge, Via Mala 92 Gallery' in the Trou Perdu, or Verlohren-loch 93 Fall of the Rhine in the Roffla 103 Passage of the Cardinells 110 Scene on the Tessin, at Monte F...
- Found on image 191 / 318 (page 91)…genuity have greatly obviated. The View illustrative of the scene here presented is taker, from this point. «- , ' ■ * f ]f ANDEER. —GORGE OF THE VIA MALA. In the midst of this dreary gorge human industry has also found means of occu- pation and profit, in the preparation of charcoal and the management o...
- Found on image 191 / 318 (page 91)…offering the most striking and characteristic points of view. The view from Mont Beverin is most extensive. Nearly half way between the Rofla and Via Mala, the neat little town of Andeer, containing upwards of four hundred inhabitants, offers a pleasing reception to the traveller who would make a day’s h...
- Found on image 191 / 318 (page 91)… scenes presented to us in the sublime solitudes of the Alps, or which the strength of imagination had invested with peculiar horror, that of the Via Mala stands forth in fearful preeminence. It seems, indeed, the vestibule of desolation, conducting us into the very jaws of horror, and plunging us into ...
- Found on image 192 / 318 (page 92)…hrieb bey Anlass seiner reise durch Andeer wo er sich mit seiner frau Gemahlin ein paar tiige aufhielt im Stambuch des Pfarrer daselbst folgendes—Via Mala—Via Bona. A. 1816. Whereupon the poet exclaims :— Nicht ferner “ Via Mala ” wie bisher Nein ! Via Bona ner.net mich viel mehr ! So recht veehrten mich di...
- Found on image 192 / 318 (page 92)…hlin ein paar tiige aufhielt im Stambuch des Pfarrer daselbst folgendes—Via Mala—Via Bona. A. 1816. Whereupon the poet exclaims :— Nicht ferner “ Via Mala ” wie bisher Nein ! Via Bona ner.net mich viel mehr ! So recht veehrten mich die Englander, Xc. The length of this defile is about three miles, every...
- Found on image 197 / 318 (page 93)…d; “ Einst durcli des Rhein- gewassers menge so ausgefiilt, so hoch aufstand, bis er da Kcinen Raunr melir fand dann sich durcli jener felsen enge oh Via-Mala eine balm aus durchs Verlorne- loch gewann, und so der name “ See” versch- wunden es fragt sich nun: Wo ginge man von llheinwald aus bis Thusis daun ...
- Found on image 197 / 318 (page 93)… viel Spuren auf derselben Ilaiden von dort durcli Felsenwege fort bis man dann endlich zu den Ort herunter kam, der Thusis heisset Trett auf! du Via Mala, so genannt spricli selbst: Wartim man dich so sehr verkennet ? Dein Wiister nalim ist uberall bekannt woher, das man noch immer bliss dich nennet ? A...
- Found on image 198 / 318 (page 94)…love of scenery, may induce to take the view from its windows. Here also he will behold, in much of its native horror, the frightful gorge of the Via Mala from which he has just escaped. The ravine, through which the Nolla has so often discharged its destructive torrents—the periodical scourge of the va...
- Found on image 202 / 318 (page 98)… briefly report. In the valley just named, delightfully situated amidst the highest Alps, and which we briefly noticed in our passage through the Via Mala (p. 91), the castles of Biiren- berg and Fardun had been long notorious as the residences of two immitigable tyrants, from whom the inhabitants had l...
- Found on image 209 / 318 (page 103)…he natural sublimity of the picture is everywhere enriched by the labours of enlightened freedom and the relics of feudal despotism. The gorge of the Via-Mala loses nothing of its terrific character by a re-visit. The story of the unhappy girl who was hurled into the abyss by her ghostly seducer, is recalle...
- Found on image 213 / 318 (page 107)…ween Chiavenna and Thusis. About the middle of the fifteenth century, when, by the gigantic efforts of a free people, the gorge of the Roffla and Via Mala had been rendered practicable, the passage of the Spliigen rose into fresh importance, and as it opened a line of direct intercourse between Germany,...
- Found on image 223 / 318 (page 115)…and Campodolcino, a distance of one league, the plain gradually closes; the rocky boundaries contract, and the Lira, roaring across the gorge of Muta Mala, rushes precipitously into the second plain of Campodolcino. This valley is as level as a lake; and, from careful examination, it would appear ex- tre...
- Found on image 232 / 318 (page 122)…y, where to have slept, even for a night, would have brought our lives into jeopardy, for here the inhabitants were fast sinking under the effects of malaria. Having embarked on board the Lario steamer, we swept round Como, under circumstances of sky and sunshine which enhanced every feature of its beautifu...
- Found on image 249 / 318 (page 133)… malheureux pays, ou la recolte des foins avait deja ete reduite a rien par les grandes secheresses de cette annee, et ou le betail a ete atteint des malacbes longues et mortelles.”* On quitting the green meadows of Andermatt, the road is carried through the Urnerloch, a gallery excavated, with much labour ...
- Found on image 250 / 318 (page 134)…ich it is enclosed ; yet, in the solidity of its structure, boldness of design, and airy expanse of arch, we have seen nothing—the passage of the Via Mala excepted— which affords more striking evidence how the genius and daring of man may triumph over the most gigantic obstacles. In contemplating a scen...
- Found on image 294 / 318 (page 172)…ith the perfect solitude, silence, and desolation, which preside over the spot, offers one of the most impressive scenes that can be imagined. In the Via-Mala, tremendous as that pass assuredly is, there is still something to remind the traveller of his vicinity to the world ; but here the solitude is abso- ...
- Found on image 294 / 318 (page 172)…ascent at a little distance from the Lontsch, heard thundering and boiling at the bottom of a frightful gorge. All of a sudden—like the exit from the Yia-Mala to the valley of Schams—an extraordinary transition is effected: the horror of the scene is instantly softened, and the eye greeted by one of the mos...
- Found on image 297 / 318 (page 175)…istricts affected the whole country, and gave rise to malignant fevers, which extended as far as Zurich, and threatened an annual accumulation of the malady. Had the same unpardonable negligence on the part of the administration to check the progress of this scourge continued fifty years longer, a space of...
- Found on image 313 / 318 (page 185)…vage country through which it rushes with inconceivable rapidity, and which has been already partially described in our passage of the Bernardino and Via-Mala. In its course it receives the waters of the Aversa, the Nolla, and Albula. At their confluence at Reichenau, the two branches of the Rhine form almos...
- Found on image 313 / 318 (page 185)…unning north, and the other west; and from this point the united stream becomes navigable for heavy rafts. At Coire, it receives the Plessour, and at Malans the Landquart, both copious rivers. Here it quits the Grison territory near the defile of St. Lucie, and flowing north, forms the frontier between Ge...
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