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    Austria , but now given to the Prince of Baden . From Scaffhausen we travelled to Zurich , in my estimation the most eligible spot in Switzerland ; thence we crossed mount Alt > is on our way to Lucerne , by a road almost too difficult for carriages . From

    Lucerne we sent our voiture empty to Berne , while we prepared for our excursion into the mountains . We began by crossing the lake of Lucerne to Russnacht , thence

    over a strip of land to Imisee on the lake of Zwg ; thence to Art at its southern extremity , and thence along the small lake of Lowertz to Boiinner , where we again embarked for Allorf . In this day ' s tour we were in three of the small

    cantons , Zug , Schweitz , and Uri , At Altorf , properly commenced our passage into the mountains , along the road which leads over the St . Gothard into Italy . The path lies hear the banks of the

    fleuss , which it frequently crosses ^ , especially by the famous Pont du Diable , This road into Italy is passable only by mules and pectestrians , to which latter Class we

    had the honour for three days to "belong . We travelled on foot as far as Hopitai , a small village in the valley of Urserefi , at the foot of SL Gofhard . Here we took

    mules to carry us over the diffi - cult passes of the Furea and the Grimsel , two of the vast chain of Alps which lay between us and Berne . The 14 th September we crossed the Furea , being obliged

    to descend from our mules , and wade through snow above our knees , because the customary path was entirely concealed . We descended then to the source of the Rhone , and to the village of OberyesteJen in the Haut Valai * , from

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    which point we began to ascend the Grimsel . If you have a good map , you will see that we here made a very devious track , be . cause the shortest route , which leads over the Mayenwund , was rendered impassable by the snow * At five o ' clock we reached the

    summit of the Grimsel , seven thousand feet above the sea , and the highest point of our peregrinations £ we slept this night in what is called the Hospice of the Grimsek The next day we de .

    scended to jftleyringen , and left our mules , thence across the lakes to Brienz and Thun , where we took a carriage for Berne . At this capital we found oar empty voiture , and our trunks

    safe , and set off the next day -for Lausanne * We passed through Morat , Avenches , Payerne , and Moudon , all ftoraan cities , and full of antiquities ; and arrived

    the l # tb at Lausanne , which was totally uninteresting to us , except as the favourite residence of Gibbon . The nex : t day we travelled over one of the most su .

    berb chaussees in the world to Geneva . Nothing remained now but to visit Chamouni and the Glaciers of Mont Blanc , which , by the blessing of heaven , we have safely accomplished in four

    days , and are ready to set off for Paris to-morrow morning . From tliis sketch of our wanderings , you will see that we have madea pretty cotnplete tour through Switzerland , by travelling less ,

    probably , than four hundred miles . "Excuse the meagre aspect of this itinerary . You know it would be absurd to attempt to give in ^ letter a proper journal of ones travels ; ami to pretend to describe any spot particularly ™[ c '

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    732 Letter from Mr . Buckminster te Arthur M . Walter ' , Esq .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 732, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/4/