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who carries his luggage, twelve francs a day will besufficient. Any one who intends to visit all the can-tons, can proceed in the following order—eitherthrough Constance, Schaffhausen, Eglisau, and Win-terthur ; or through Lindau, the lake of Constance,Roschach, and St. Gall, to Zurich ; then over mountAlbis to Zug, over lake Zug to Arth, at the foot ofthe Righi; over the lake to Lucerne, which Busin-ger describes in his guide. The traveller now enterson the route over the mountains. The way leadsthrough Stanzstadt, Stanz, the abbey of Engelburg,and over the Surenian Alps ; or from Stanz throughBuochs, over the lake of the four Forest-Towns, Riitli,and Tell’s chapel to Altorf. Thence you pass onthe great road from German Switzerland to Italy, inthree days, to Bellinzona. Through Ursern, the roadleads from Altorf to Dissentis, and the adjacentsprings of the Rhine ; and further through Trons toCoire, where [a traveller who wishes to visit Grau-biindten stops.

Among the principal curiosities of the Grisons arethe valley of Comlesch, the bridge of Solis, which isthe highest in Europe, the Via Mala, the glaciers of theRhine, the valley of Misocco, and the glacier of Ber-nina. From Coire, the traveller pursues his journeythrough Sennwald to Appenzell and Gais, and thenthrough Utznach and Einsledeln; or, if he does notintend to visit first the bath at Pfeffers, throughPanyx, Elm, and Matt, to Glarus, and thence to Ein-siedeln, from which he returns, over Schweitz andthe ruins of Goldau, to Lucerne. Then he goesthrough the charming Entlibuch, or over the battle-field of Sempach, through Zopfingen, Morgenthal,Hindelbank, and Hofwyl, to Berne.

From Berne, the traveller proceeds over Thur, infour to six days (including the time occupied inreturning through Interlaken and Brientz), to thebeautiful Oberland, to Lauterbrunnen, to Staubbach,over the little Scheideck to Grindelwald, at the footof the Jungfrau, and of the Schreckhorn, and overthe great Scheideck to Haslithal. From Merzringen,the chief place in the valley, those who have not tra-velled from Altorf to the hospice of St. Gothard cango by the new road through the Susten Valley.

The hospice on the Grirnsel, 5887 feet high, is par-ticularly worthy to be visited. Thence the travellerroceeds to the glaciers of the Rhone. From Bernee goes through Murten and Avenches, or Fri-burg, and then by Payerne, Lausanne, Aubonne, toGeneva. Thence he proceeds to the icy heights andglaciers of the valley of Chamouni, either throughThonon, Evian, Simoens, and Sixte, or through Bon-neville and Salenche, to Servoz; thence on to Cha-mouni, at the foot of Mont Blanc, which requiresthree days.

In this neighbourhood are seen the celebrated bathsof St. Germain, a spot which combines within itselfsome of the most beautiful features of Swiss scenery.Of the edifice a sketch is given in the next column,but no effort of the pictorial art can properly pour-tray the mountains piled on mountains that here’pre-sent themselves to the eye of the observer; and thethickly-wooded heights in the neighbourhood form avery extraordinary contrast to the everlasting snowsof Mont Blanc, which crowns the whole.

If the traveller does not return from Chamouni toGeneva, he either takes a difficult path through thevalley of Valorsine, and over the village of Trent, orthe Col de Balme, to Martignv, at the foot of the

Great Bernard. From this place, one may go overthe Simplon road to the Borromean Islands, or overSt. Branchier to the Val de Bagnes (where, in 1818,owing to the fall of the glacier Getroz, lake Mau-

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voisin broke through its banks, and spread fearfuldevastation) ; then to the hospice on St. Bernard, andback to Martigny, which requires three days.

From Martigny, the traveller goes through St.Maurice, by the Pissevache, or by a circuitous way,which well rewards him for his trouble, throughSitten, and along the new road, so called, over MountAzeindaz, to Bex (where the remarkable salt minesmay be seen), and then through Aigle and Clarensto Vevay, whence the traveller may proceed bywater to Geneva, if he does not wish to go by landthrough Lausanne. On the opposite shore of thelake, the road passes through Meillerie and Evian toGeneva; then through Orbe, adjacent to the beauti-ful valley of the Lac du Joux and the valley ofRomainmotier, to Yverdun, and along the lake toNeufchatel, whence a visit may be paid to the manu-facturing villages Chaux de Fonds and Locle; fromNeufchatel through Bienne, or Aarberg, to Soleure,near which rises the Weissenstein, affording from itssummit a fine view' of the wide valley that divides theJura from the Alps. The traveller will thus concludewith one of the most splendid prospects in Switzerland.

Sybaeis. An ancient Greek city of Lower Italy,in Lucania, on the gulf of Tarentum. It is supposedto have been built by a colony of Achoeans and Trce-zenians, about 720 B. C. The Sybarites were cele-brated for their luxury and voluptuousness, and hadbecome enervated by the mildness of the climate, therichness of the soil, and their great wealth. Becom-ing involved in a war with Crotona, the city ofSybaris brought into the field 300,000 men, while theforces of the former amounted to but 100,000. TheCrotonians, however, were victorious, and totallydestroyed Sybaris.

Sydney. The capital of the British colony ofNew South Wales, in Australia. Sydney is situatedon a cove, on the south side of Port Jackson, aboutseven miles from its mouth. The water is of sufficientdepth to allow ships of the largest size to come closeup to the shore. Port Jackson is one of the finestnatural basins in the world, stretching fifteen milesinto the country, with numerous creeks and bays.The anchorage is every where excellent, and shipsare protected from every wind. The streets ofSydney are built without any regular plan, and the