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MY HOME IN THE ALPS.

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Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON

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My Home in the Alps.

BY

MRS. MAIN,

AUTHOR OF
“THE HIGH ALPS IN WINTER; OR, MOUNTAINEERING IN SEARCH OF HEALTH,”
AND “HIGH LIFE AND TOWERS OF SILENCE.”

LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, AND COMPANY
LIMITED,
St. Dunstan’s House,
Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.
1892.

[All rights reserved.]

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PREFACE.

In this little volume, much of the matter in which first appeared inthe St. Moritz Post, or, as it is now called, the Alpine Post, Ihave jotted down a few things of interest to the ordinary traveller inSwitzerland. To climbers, my notes will be but a thrice-told tale, andone which, doubtless, many of them could tell far better, while nota few of them have already told it elsewhere. The idea of publishingthese trifling papers came to me through the necessity of replying tomany questions on the subjects to which I refer; for, living as I doin Switzerland, I naturally am supposed to be more familiar with thepeculiarities of the country and people than is the ordinary tourist.It thus seems to me that a small book, dealing with some of thevarious objects of interest usually met with during a summer’s tour inSwitzerland, might find a corner in a traveller’s portmanteau, and so,asking[Pg vi] indulgence for the errors into which I am sure I have fallenfrom time to time, I commend the following pages to whoever does me thehonour to glance at them.

E. MAIN.

Engadiner Kulm,
  Switzerland.

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