Two Hundred and Nine Days; Or, the Journal of a Traveller on the Continent - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827. Excerpt: ... and in their gayest and best apparel, in honour of the birth-day of the Blessed Virgin. The eighth day of September is dedicated, throughout Christendom, to the memory of the Blessed Virgin's Nativity, a concert of angels having been heard in the air to solemnize that day as her birth-day. We found a comely little inn in the church-yard, commanding a view of the lovely lake, and inhabited by pretty girls, who received us with remarkable kindness, and with an excellent dinner: we quitted this charming place with reluctance. We embarked in a boat with an impudent fellow, who forced himself upon us, but whom we did not know how to refuse, and in three hours reached Lucerne. We were tired to death with our exertions on the Righi, but we contrived to walk about a little. There is a large handsome cathedral, we found it open, but we did not hear the organ, which is of a great size and is famous: the church-yard is full of gilded iron rods, the monuments of the country. Every town has its peculiar characteristic--Lucerne its long, covered wooden bridges, with which it is almost surrounded, and they afford a commodious dry walk for the inhabitants; in the successive tympana of which are painted--in one, scripture stories; in another, Swiss history, like the Pcecile at Athens, on the walls of which were painted the wars with the Persians; on another bridge is a more singular subject, the Dance of Death. The river Reuss, with which we were to become better acquainted, rushes out of the lake, and flows through the town with a clear stream, and with much impetuosity. We took some tea in a handsome saloon in our comfortable inn, the Golden Eagle, and went to bed thoroughly.tired. Friday, September 9.--We were conducted by a guide to the arsenal, where are modern arms;...

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