The Spell of Switzerland

by Nathan Haskell Dole

[CONTENTS]

CHAPTER		PAGE
	[Preface]	v
[I].	Uncle and Niece	1
[II].	Just a Common Voyage	8
[III].	A Roundabout Tour	25
[IV].	Home at Lausanne	37
[V].	Gibbon at Lausanne	74
[VI].	Around the Lake Leman	101
[VII].	A Digression at Chillon	122
[VIII].	Lord Byron and the Lake	136
[IX].	A Princess and the Spell of the Lake	149
[X].	The Alps and the Jura	160
[XI].	The Southern Shore	173
[XII].	Geneva	197
[XIII].	Sunrise and Rousseau	216
[XIV].	The City of Rousseau and Calvin	232
[XV].	Famous Folk	269
[XVI].	The Ascent of the Dôle	290
[XVII].	A Former Worker of Spells	311
[XVIII].	To Chamonix	322
[XIX].	A Detour to Zermatt	350
[XX].	The Vale of Chamonix	364
[XXI].	Hannibal in Switzerland	382
[XXII].	Zürich	400
[XXIII].	At Zürich with the Professor	414
[XXIV].	On the Shores of Lake Lucerne	445
[XXV].	Lausanne Again	454
	[Bibliography]	469
	[Index]	471

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	PAGE
[Evening near Saas-Fee] (in full colour) ([see page 369)]	Frontispiece
[MAP OF SWITZERLAND]	1
[In the Engadine Valley] (in full colour)	8
[The Alpenglow on the Jungfrau]	11
[A Winterthur Stove]	39
[A Swiss Château]	52
[The Cathedral, Lausanne]	66
[Lausanne and the Savoy Mountains]	78
[La Dent du Midi from Montreux]	106
[Lake Leman at Vevey]	120
[The Castle of Chillon]	124
[The Prison of Bonivard in the Castle of Chillon]	130
[Mont Blanc]	141
[The Castle of Châtelard and the Savoy Alps]	155
[Alpine Herdsmen]	164
[The Living-Room of an Alpine Castle] (in full colour)	173
[The Waterfront and the Ile Rousseau, Geneva]	197
[Swiss Mediaeval Carvings]	210
[Les Grandes Jorasses]	216
[Across Lake Leman]	230
[Fribourg]	243
[Barks on Lake Leman]	262
[Along the Shore of Lake Leman]	267
[The Savoy Alps from the North Shore of Lake Leman]	297
[“All the mighty valleys of the Alps were filling with mists”]	308
[Mont Blanc and the Valley of Chamonix]	327
[The Valley of the Rhône at Martigny]	342
[Pissevache Cascade]	348
[Le Mont Cervin]	354
[Monte Rosa]	359
[The Needle of the Matterhorn]	362
[On the Glacier]	366
[“Jagged needles and pinnacles of cruel rock”]	375
[“The snow was deep on the mountains”]	392
[The Hospice of the Great St. Bernard]	396
[The Castle of Neuchâtel]	402
[An Old Street in Bern]	410
[A Rainy Day in Zürich]	415
[The Urner Loch]	424
[The Kinzig Pass]	426
[The Klöntalersee]	428
[The Falls of the Rhine]	435
[The Fraumünster]	436
[The Quaint Statue of Charlemagne]	438
[Rapperswyl]	442
[Sertiz Dörfli] (in full colour)	444
[Lucerne and Mount Pilatus]	448
[On the Lake of Lucerne]	450
[“The music of the cows’ bells”]	454
[The Staubbach]	456
[A Street in Thun]	460
[Château Voltaire, Ferney]	464
[Wrestling at a Village Festival]	467

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SWITZERLAND