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Title: Switzerland as described by great writers
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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great green pyramid of the Niesen, betweenthe Kanderthal and Simmenthal, to the rocky head of theStockhorn. We have thus here at the end the same varietyof scenery which we found at the beginning of our journey,on the Lake of Lucerne. The limestone ranges—whichform the mid-Alpine district—cross the Lake of Thun diag-onally, so that on the northern shore, at its extremity, wehave once more the rolling hills of sandstone and hardenedgravel from which we parted in the neighbourhood ofLucerne. Here the fir is replaced by the vine, the pastureby the cornfield—in a word, the Alps by the lowlands.From the upper part of the lake the Oberland peaks nowand again afford us parting glimpses, and the Schilthornssnowy cap recalls pleasant memories of the hours passed onthat lofty watch-tower. One peak, indeed, the Schreck-horn, which hitherto has rarely shown itself in its fullmajesty, now makes amends; and as we cross the lakefrom shore to shore, is revealed, rising pinnacle above pinnacle,
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THE LAKE OF THUN 133 beyond the folding lines of the nearer mountains, formingone of the most perfect pictures that I have seen in thewhole range of the Alps. Then, when all too soon this vision has been shut out,new peaks are disclosed, rising above the line of woodedhills that extend along a considerable portion of the southernshore. These belong to a region of which we have hithertoonly now and then caught a glimpse from some command-ing height, the region above the valleys descending to thelower end of the Lake of Thun. They fall, indeed, con-siderably short of the elevation attained by the peaks furthereast, and are less striking in outline; but, perhaps, all themore for that, harmonize well with the less rugged sceneryof the neighbourhood of Thun. The pyramidal mountainon the right is the Niesen, and the snowy ridge above thevalley is the Blumlis Alp, the highest of whose peaks is alittle more than twelve thousand feet above the sea. It isthe first example of a type of mountain

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