. Switzerland: and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol : handbook for travellers . , to Horgenor Rapperswil and back (in 2 or 372 hrs.). The Lake of Zurich(;i340),25M. long, 2i/2M. broad at its widestpart, and 470deep, is fed by the Linth and drained by the banks rise in gentle slopes; at their base are meadows andarable land; above these is a belt of vineyards and orchards; andon the E. side the hills, about 2500 high, are wooded. Sprinkledfor a long way with houses, villages, and manufactories, the banksmay not inaptly be termed suburbs of Zurich. In the backgroundris
. Switzerland: and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol : handbook for travellers . , to Horgenor Rapperswil and back (in 2 or 372 hrs.). The Lake of Zurich(;i340),25M. long, 2i/2M. broad at its widestpart, and 470deep, is fed by the Linth and drained by the banks rise in gentle slopes; at their base are meadows andarable land; above these is a belt of vineyards and orchards; andon the E. side the hills, about 2500 high, are wooded. Sprinkledfor a long way with houses, villages, and manufactories, the banksmay not inaptly be termed suburbs of Zurich. In the backgroundrises the long chain of the snow-clad Alps (see p. 43). a. Railway on the Left Bank fbom ZOeich via Thalwil toWeesen and Sabgans. The train describes a wide curve roundthe town, crossing the Sihl twice, passes under the Uetliberg line,and at {1l/2 M.) Zurich-Enge (p. 40) approaches the lake. — 3y2 Wollishofen (Hirsch; Restaurant & Pension Frohalp, ^ up, pens. 5-7 fr.). Pretty view from the Riviera, a woodenbelvedere i/i hr. above the lake. — 5/2 M. Bendlikon-Kilehberg. t^H 1 5?i- 1 u-rV u -c ••• * i /■nltio. n. Arth Guhlai^ J^ Si/Omjitf£M JoittclnrVL
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