Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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HOSPICE OF THE GRIMSEL. 284 Persons and Places in Europe. Over this, in the morning when the sun-shines, spans a beautiful rain*bow. A Valley of Fountains.—But the most beautiful valley in all Switzeiw.land is the Lauter Brunnen,— nothing but fountains. Its sides are linedwith multitudes of tiny streams, that hang like long tassels of silver dowm
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ALPINE DOS. the face of the crags, or fling themselves in showers of rainbow spray fromthe edges of the high precipices. Chief among these fountains is thebtabback or Dust Stream, that comes curving down over a precipice ninehundred feet high, swaying and spreading-in the wind, until it falls in cloudsot silvery dust upon the rocks below. The valley is a deep narrow chasmreaching into the sides of the St. Gothard giants. Rustic cottages are sprink-led here and there upon its over-hanging cliffs, and the little village of Lauter Switzerland. 285 jrunnen, with its fifteen thousand inhabitants, nestles at its heart, so over-shadowed by the surrounding cliffs, that in winter the sun does not reach itriitil noon, and then speedily disappears. Lake Leman and Lake Lucerne.— Clear placid Leman, the largestf the Swiss lakes, has received many flattering tributes from pen and pen-il. Her pure waters keep ever unsullied by the numerous muddy streamshat bathe themselves there before entering th

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