Identifier: travelsineuropea00bolt (find matches)
Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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in Lake Lucerne. We walked outside the gates of the city to seethe celebrated Lion of Lucerne. It was executedin 1821 in memory of twenty-one ofihcers and 760soldiers of the Swiss Guard, who fell in defence ofthe Tuileries, August loth, 1792. The dying lionis resting in a grotto, transfixed by a broken lance,but defending to the last gasp, with his paw, thegolden lilies of France. It was hewn out of thenatural sandstone after a model by the DanishSculptor, Thorwaldsen. The rock which bears thenames of the Swiss heroes, with the inscriptionTo the valor and fidelity of the Swiss, is over-hung with creeping vines. A spring at the topflows over the ledge and into a pool at the base,forming a mirror which reflects the colossal sculp-ture. It affords proof that in true art the simplestidea executed by a masterhand never fails to pro-duce grand effect. We took passage on a small steamer for the prettyvillage of Vitznau, a few miles up on the Northshore of Lake Lucerne to climb Mt. Rigi. The
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THE LION OF LUCERNE. TRA VELS. 26y railway takes Its passengers past the little church,up among gardens and fruit trees, and still higherup the famous Rigi. We pass through a long tun-nel, then on frail bridges over deep ravines. TheRigi Railway is only four and a half miles long witha maximum grade of one in four. Like the rail-ways up Mount Washington and Mt. Vesuvius, itis very steep. Between the outer rails are twoextra rails close together, and provided with teeth,on which cogs of the locomotive work. The trainhas but one carriage, which is capable of holdingfifty persons. This observation car is placed infront of the engine, unconnected by couplings, sothat it can be stopped immediately in case of dan-ger. En route up the mountain, which is a milehigh, enormous blocks of conglomerated rocks arepassed, which show the structure of the Rigi group.In the winter frosts cleave and split the rocks, anda century ago a torrent of mud and rocks descend-ing from Rigi, covered acres of land

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