Identifier: switzerlandadj00karl (find matches)
Title: Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Coblenz : K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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en. The walls are coveredwith votive tablets, one of which extols the virtues of the coldspring (^41 Fahr.) which issues from tlie adjacent rock. Hythe Chapel, a footpath leads to the (_10 min.) *hdnzli (4770),an open rotunda on a projecting ro<k, from which a magniticentview is obtained, similar to that from the Staffel, but with amore picturesque foreground. From this point a footpath leadsto the Staflel, in the same time (40 min.) as the path fromthe Kaltbad; it ascends from the Klinzli (not towards the E.)to the r. as far as the point where the S. portion of the lakebecomes visible; it then continues to ascend the ridge of themountain, until, about half way up, it unites with the path fromthe Kaltbad, so that the visitor to the Kanzli need not returnto the Kaltbad. The direct path from the Kaltbad presents fewattractions; it leads to the Staflel in 40 min.; from the Staflelto the Kulm is an ascent of y.i hr. more, see p. 60. The Rigi-Kulm (5905) is the loftiest and most N. poin
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Kuhn Ul(,\. 2i>. Route. r)3 ol the Uigi group ( the entire cinnnilerenre oi whiili irs 2;)—80 M.), and is covered \s\i\\ verdure to the summit. Its N. sidemakes a precipitous descent into the Lake of Zug. whilst ontlie 8. side it is connected ^vith the other heights of the liigi.The large hotel (^p. 5crest of the Glarnisch rises above the ridge: then the T.idi, in front ofwhich the Clariden, to the r. the double peak of the Scheerhorn -, next theWindgelle, the sharp pyramid of the Kristenstock, at the foot

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