A SECOND MONTH
IN
SWITZERLAND
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
THE DUTY AND DISCIPLINE OF EXTEMPORARY PREACHING.
Second Edition.
New York: C. SCRIBNER & CO.
A WINTER IN THE UNITED STATES.
Being Table-Talk collected during a Tour through the Southern Confederation, the Far West, the Rocky Mountains, &c.
London: JOHN MURRAY.
EGYPT OF THE PHARAOHS AND OF THE KHEDIVÉ.
Second Edition.
A MONTH IN SWITZERLAND.
London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO.
BY KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E.
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SWISS ALLMENDS
AND A WALK TO SEE THEM
BEING
A SECOND MONTH IN SWITZERLAND
BY
F. BARHAM ZINCKE
VICAR OF WHERSTEAD
CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN
Naturam, optimam ducem, tanquam Deum, sequimur
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1874
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PREFACE.
While I was engaged in writing my ‘Month in Switzerland’ of last year,there was in my mind a half-formed thought, that it might be the firstof two or three sketches of the country and of the people. This,notwithstanding that I forbad its growing into anything so visionaryas a common expectation, did yet, though somewhat illogically,dispose me to acquiesce in publishing what might have been regardedas the commencement only of a series, which would require time andopportunities for advancing towards anything at all approaching tocompleteness.
One of the omissions of that first ‘Month,’ the Swiss Allmends, orcommonable land, I studied this year with some attention, and, too,with some assistance, for which I was indebted both to the Government,and to several Swiss investigators of the history and present action ofthe system. The results of this study will be found in the followingpages.
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As to the excursion itself: the ground it covered was greater inextent, and of more varied interest, than that of the excursion of theprevious year. The narrative of its work, objects, and occurrences Igive unbroken by digressions. To this the chapter on Einsiedln is notan exception