CONTENTS

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[CHAPTER I]The Spirit of the Mountains1
[CHAPTER II]The Earliest Swiss: The Lake-Dwellers: Charlemagne14
[CHAPTER III]The Swiss in the Middle Ages31
[CHAPTER IV]Modern Switzerland43
[CHAPTER V]Some Literary Associations56
[CHAPTER VI]The Swiss and Human Thought69
[CHAPTER VII]The Swiss People to-day81
[CHAPTER VIII]Alpine Climbing96
[CHAPTER IX]Natural Beauties of Switzerland109
[CHAPTER X]Avalanches and Glaciers122
[CHAPTER XI]The Alpine Clubs138
[CHAPTER XII]The Flowers of the Alps153
[CHAPTER XIII]Swiss Sports164
[CHAPTER XIV]Swiss Schools178
[CHAPTER XV]Some Statistical Facts185
[INDEX] 197

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

IN COLOUR

1.[At Les Plans in April]Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
2.[The Matterhorn from the Riffelberg]9
3.[Looking down the Rhone Valley from Mt. Palerin at the Eastern end of the Lake of Geneva]16
4.[A distant view of the Jura Range from the south side of the Lake of Geneva]25
5.[Fluelen at the end of Uri Lake]32
6.[Altdorf]41
7.[A Village on the St. Gothard Railway]48
8.[The Statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Island in the Rhone, Geneva]57
9.[Château de Prangins]64
10.[Geneva from the Arve]73
11.[L'Église de la Madeleine, Geneva]80
12.[An Alpine Village, Grindelwald]89
13.[Alpine Herdsmen]91
14.[Hay Hauling on the Alpine Snow]94
15.[Sunset on Mont Blanc from Geneva]96
16.[The Palu Glacier]105
17.[Winter Sunrise in the Engadine—Cresta, Celerina, and Samaden]107
18.[The Schiahorn. "The Châlets are like fairy houses or toys"]110
19.[A Mountain Path, Grindelwald]112
20.[Castle of Chillon]121
21.[Davos in Winter—The Home of John Addington Symonds]128
22.[Märjelen See and Great Aletsch Glacier]137
23.[Looking up Valley towards Zermatt from near Randa]144
24.[The Dents du Midi from Gryon above Bex]147
25.[The Schwartzhorn from the Fluela Hospice]150
26.[An Alpine Meadow in Bloom]153
27.[Hepatica in the Woods at Bex]156
28.[Alpine Garden (La Linnea) at Bourg St. Pierre on the road to the Great St. Bernard, beginning of August]160
29.[Hunting the Chamois]169
30.[A Corner of Aigle Skating Rink]176
31.[Berne]185
32.[Lausanne]192

[Sketch Map at end of Volume]