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…tliser, or North Wind...Falls of St. Quenten .... ..... 151—176 CANTONS OF ST. GALL AND APPENZELL.—Wallenstadt... Baths of Pfeffers... Scenery of the Tamina...Gorge ..Optical Illusions...Full Description of the Baths...Amusements, Walks, Ac. Analysis of the Waters...The Abbey of Pfeffers...Sources of the Rhine......
- Found on image 14 / 318… 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 180 Junction of the Rhine and Tamina 187 SWITZERLAND “ Ce paysage unique, le plus beau dont l’oeil humain fut jamais frappe!—s£jour charmant auquel j...
- Found on image 14 / 318…dow of Grutli . . 142 Tell’s Chapel, Lake Uri 151 The Abbey of Einsiedeln 163 Baths of Pfeffers 177 Gorge of the Tamina 180 Junction of the Rhine and Tamina 187 SWITZERLAND “ Ce paysage unique, le plus beau dont l’oeil humain fut jamais frappe!—s£jour charmant auquel je n’avais rien trouve d’egal dans le ...
- Found on image 302 / 318 (page 178)…modation appears to have been wretched. About twenty years later, a bridge was constructed at the fearful height of 540 feet above the channel of the Tamina, and 130 feet long; but this was entirely destroyed by fire in 1029, and never re-built. These thermal waters take their source in a gorge of the Tami...
- Found on image 302 / 318 (page 178)…ina, and 130 feet long; but this was entirely destroyed by fire in 1029, and never re-built. These thermal waters take their source in a gorge of the Tamina—the horrors of which defy alike the power of imagination, and the pen of description. They are, after their kind, the most dismal, in point of situation,...
- Found on image 303 / 318 (page 179)… of speech—shows us the poverty of words, compels us to halt, and gaze, and meditate in mute astonishment, and with feelings as new to SCENERY OF THE TAMINA. ourselves as the scenes by which they are called forth. As we continue our approach, the depth of the ravine darkens below, the light from above dimi...
- Found on image 303 / 318 (page 179)…ooned here and there with the bright Alpine rose, clinging to the imperfect crevices, where no other vegetation can find nourishment. The roar of the Tamina deepens as we approach the brink, and boiling downward, dashes the white spray from its tide, and rushes like a stream of lightning through a midnigh...
- Found on image 307 / 318 (page 181)…outh-east and north-west corners of the two houses ; the latter exposure commands the gorge, and, during the night, furnishes such a lullaby from the Tamina, as will scare away the night-mare from the soundest sleeper. The storms which break over this gorge, but without troubling its repose, are peculiarly...
- Found on image 308 / 318 (page 182)…he inn—a depth of six hundred and sixty-four feet. The Kanzlein, the Bazaar, kept by an Italian, the solitude, and a grotto, beyond the bridge of the Tamina, are the points of rendezvous to which the com- pany repair for exercise and amusement. The latter of these is highly picturesque, and viewed under th...
- Found on image 309 / 318 (page 183)…his beautiful rose of the Alps is in full flower in the month of August, and flourishes where all its tribe would be frozen. Along- side, the frantic Tamina rolls deep, dark, and rapidly, crested with foam, and accompanied by that wild concert of echoes from cavern and precipice, which awoke with the firs...
- Found on image 310 / 318 (page 184)…98, when the sword was ennobled at the expense of the crosier. Its sovereign demesne was extensive, and embraced Sargans, and the whole valley of the Tamina. In the middle of the seventeenth century, the ancient convent was burnt down, and replaced by the buildings of the present day, which are partially c...
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