[98] The Times, 26th March, from an “Edinburgh paper.”
A Young Artist’s Letter
FROM SWITZERLAND.
From the letter of an English artist, now abroad, accompanied by marginal sketches with the pen, addressed to a young relation, I am obligingly permitted to take the following—
EXTRACT,
Interlaken, Switzerland.
Sunday, Sept. 10, 1826.
I arrived at Geneva, after a ride of a day and a night, from Lyons, through a delightful mountainous country. The steam-boat carried me from Geneva to Lausanne, a very pretty town, at the other end of the fine lake, from whence I went to Berne, one of the principal towns in Switzerland, and the most beautiful I have seen yet. It is extremely clean, and therefore it was quite a treat, after the French towns, which are filthy.
Berne is convenient residence, both in sunny and wet weather, for all the streets have arcades, under which the shops are in this way,
