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[Illustration: 1. HAYMAKERS IN THE VAL MAGGIA. The loads carried by the women are enormous in size, what they are in weight I don't know; but many of them are larger than those shown in the picture. One load I measured was twice the height of the woman.]
1. Haymakers in the Val Maggia _Frontispiece_
3. View of the Bernese Alps from the Gurten, near Bern 4
4. The Pier at Scherzligen, Lake of Thun--Evening 6
6. Storm coming up over Lake of Lucerne 10
7. Looking up Valley towards Zermatt from near Randa 14
8. Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau from Scherzligen, near Thun 16
9. Lucerne and Lake from the Drei Linden 20
11. Fiescherhorn and Lower Grindelwald Glacier 30
13. The Corpus Christi Procession to the Hofkirche of St. Leodegar 38
16. Storm Clouds over the Lake of Thun 52
19. Looking over Lucerne from the Drei Linden 70
22. Looking down the Aletsch Glacier from Concordia Hut 82
24. Locarno from the Banks of the Lake 88
27. Locarno at Sunset, and North End of Lago Maggiore 100
28. Moonlight in the Val Formazza from the Tosa Falls 104
31. The Grosser Aletsch-Firn from Concordia Hut 116
32. Thunderstorm breaking over Pallanza 124
35. Lower Glacier and Grindelwald Church 142
36. Grindelwald looking towards the Wengen Alp 146
37. Rimpfischorn and Strahlhorn from the Riffelberg 150
39. Weisshorn and Matterhorn from Fiescheralp 160
40. Aiguille Verte and Aiguille du Dru from the Chamonix Valley 164
46. The Dent Blanche from the Riffelberg 192
47. The Village of Soldimo, at the Entrance of the Val Maggia 198
48. Flüelen at end of Lake of Uri, South Arm of Lake of Lucerne 200
50. The Gletscherhorn from the Pavilion, Hôtel Cathrein, close to Concordia Hut 208
53. Kranzberg--Rotthalhorn--and Jungfrau: Sunset 214
54. Märjelen See and Great Aletsch Glacier 220
55. The Castle of Zähringen-Kyburg, Thun 226
59. Looking down the Val Formazza from Tosa 240
68. Pilatus and Lake of Lucerne from the Slopes of the Rigi 276
John Ruskin, in a fine and famous passage, describes the effect of a first view of the Alps upon a young and sensitive mind. He was at Schaffhausen with his parents. "We must have spent some time in town-seeing," he writes, "for it was drawing towards sunset when we got up to some sort of garden promenade--west of the town, I believe; and high above the Rhine, so as to command the open country across it to the south and west. At which open country of low undulation, far into blue--gazing as at one of our own distances from Malvern of Worcestershire, or Dorking of Kent,--suddenly--behold--beyond! There was no thought in any of us for a moment of their being clouds. They were clear as crystal, sharp on the pure horizon sky, and already tinged with rose by the sinking sun. Infinitely beyond all that we had ever thought or dreamed,--the seen walls of lost Eden could not have been more beautiful to us; not more awful, round heaven, the walls of sacred Death. It is not possible to imagine, in any time of the world, a more blessed entrance into life, for a child of such a temperament as mine."