. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . rned,save by certain lively and not too trustworthy represen-tations which we afterwards met with, in the shape of ad-vertisements of the Zurich hotels, and which showed a lineof snow mountains as the ordinary horizon of their visitors The churches on the lake are very numerous and verysimilar. The steeples are almost always gabled, and fromthese gables rise spires painted red, and very thin and taperin their form. The gabled sides of the towers are generallymade useful rather than ornamental by the introduction ofen
. Brick and marble in the middle ages: notes of tours in the north of Italy . rned,save by certain lively and not too trustworthy represen-tations which we afterwards met with, in the shape of ad-vertisements of the Zurich hotels, and which showed a lineof snow mountains as the ordinary horizon of their visitors The churches on the lake are very numerous and verysimilar. The steeples are almost always gabled, and fromthese gables rise spires painted red, and very thin and taperin their form. The gabled sides of the towers are generallymade useful rather than ornamental by the introduction ofenormous clock-dials. The only decidedly mediaeval churchwhich I saw between Zurich and Kapperswyl was at oneof the villaues on the north shore of the lake, I think at 22 LAKE OF ZUKICH. [Chap. H. Meilen, but I am rather uncertain as to the name. Itsdesign is both novel and very good ; the pinnacles on thegable being unusual in saddle-backed steeples, and givingconsiderable picturesqueness of outline. The accompanyingwoodcut will show the general character of the design, and. CHCKCH ON THE LAKE OF ZCBICH. it will be seen that the tower is on the north side of tliechoir. The steeple roof is covered with greyish-red tiles,witli a ])att(m marked on them with yellow tiles. The steamers on this, as on most Swiss lakes, are somewhattedious in their journeys, as they take a most zigzag course,lirst calling on one side of the lake and tlien on the other,until one d()ii1>(s whether one will ever reach the journeys end. j CiiAi. 11.] IJAlrKRSWYL. 23 At lloigeii ui course we diseliarged a lar^e })ruportion of ourEnglish passengers, who were all bound for the Rigi, buttheir places were soon occupied by the umbrella-lovingnatives, who flocked in and out of the boat in great numbersat every station, and by the time we reached Eapperswyl weliad no more fellow-countrymen in the boat, and perhaps,like many Englishmen, to say the truth, we then firsttlioroughly realised that we were abroad. Muc
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