My Home in the Alps

Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON

My Home in the Alps.
MRS. MAIN,
AUTHOR OF “THE HIGH ALPS IN WINTER; OR, MOUNTAINEERING IN SEARCH OF HEALTH,” AND “HIGH LIFE AND TOWERS OF SILENCE.”
LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, AND COMPANY LIMITED , St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. 1892.

In this little volume, much of the matter in which first appeared in the St. Moritz Post , or, as it is now called, the Alpine Post , I have jotted down a few things of interest to the ordinary traveller in Switzerland. To climbers, my notes will be but a thrice-told tale, and one which, doubtless, many of them could tell far better, while not a few of them have already told it elsewhere. The idea of publishing these trifling papers came to me through the necessity of replying to many questions on the subjects to which I refer; for, living as I do in Switzerland, I naturally am supposed to be more familiar with the peculiarities of the country and people than is the ordinary tourist. It thus seems to me that a small book, dealing with some of the various objects of interest usually met with during a summer’s tour in Switzerland, might find a corner in a traveller’s portmanteau, and so, asking indulgence for the errors into which I am sure I have fallen from time to time, I commend the following pages to whoever does me the honour to glance at them.
E. MAIN.
Engadiner Kulm, Switzerland.