Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts . s outline, bending intodivers forms, is sometimes named the Lake of the Four Cantons,from having Lucerne, Unterwalden, Uri, and Schweitz, as itsboundaries. On the west side rises Mount Pilatus, and on theeast the Righi. Beyond this to the south, the shores are pre-cipitous, and clothed with green shrubs. The ground in suchplaces does not admit of roads ; the only means of access fromknoll to knoll being by boats or precarious pathways among thecliffs. Llere the tourist arrives in front of what is called TelFschapel, which is situated on
Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts . s outline, bending intodivers forms, is sometimes named the Lake of the Four Cantons,from having Lucerne, Unterwalden, Uri, and Schweitz, as itsboundaries. On the west side rises Mount Pilatus, and on theeast the Righi. Beyond this to the south, the shores are pre-cipitous, and clothed with green shrubs. The ground in suchplaces does not admit of roads ; the only means of access fromknoll to knoll being by boats or precarious pathways among thecliffs. Llere the tourist arrives in front of what is called TelFschapel, which is situated on the eastern side of the lake, at the footof the Achsenberg, a mountain rising to a height of 6732 feet, towhich may be added a depth of 600 feet below the surface of the 28 WILLIAM TELL AISD STTITZERLAXD. water. The chapel, which is a very small edifice, of a pavilionform, open in front, and distinguished hj a small spire on itsroof, is erected on a shelf of rock jutting out from the almostprecipitous bank, and close upon the edge of the lake. The only. Tells Chapel. means of access is by boats. Here, according to tradition, Tellleaped ashore, and escaped from the boat in which he was in thecourse of being conveyed to the dungeons of Kiissnacht. Thechapel, we are told, was erected in 1380, or thirty-one years afterthe death of the hero, by order of the assembled citizens X)f Uri,in commemoration of the event. The chapel is fitted up with analtar, and its walls ornamented with a few daubs of pictures ; itsgeneral appearance is wild and desolate; and only once a-year,on a particular festival, is any religious service performed withinit, A few miles farther on is Fluelen, the port of the canton ofUri; and here the lake terminates. Altorf, where Tell shot theapple, is a few miles distant, up the vale of the Reuss. Passing southwards from Lucerne, the tourist generally visitsa region of lofty mountains, called the Bernese Alps—alj) beinga word sigTiifying a height. The principal
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