Switzerland, its scenery, history, and literary associations . igners whohave visited Interlaken have made common useof them in the most harmonious fashion, theEnglish occupying the choir, the Catholics thenave, and the Scotch and French Protestantssome of the adjoining chapels. At present,however, the erection of a beautiful new churchbuilding has rendered this arrangement un-necessary. Interlaken is a flourishing Luftkur-ort,with the finest excursions close at hand, andthese, with its own lovely situation, has made-it one of the most famous summer resorts inthe world. The chief and never fai
Switzerland, its scenery, history, and literary associations . igners whohave visited Interlaken have made common useof them in the most harmonious fashion, theEnglish occupying the choir, the Catholics thenave, and the Scotch and French Protestantssome of the adjoining chapels. At present,however, the erection of a beautiful new churchbuilding has rendered this arrangement un-necessary. Interlaken is a flourishing Luftkur-ort,with the finest excursions close at hand, andthese, with its own lovely situation, has made-it one of the most famous summer resorts inthe world. The chief and never failing attrac-tion of Interlaken is the view of the Jungfrau,as it is seen at the other end of the Lauter-brunnen Valley, a view that is unsurpassedeven in Switzerland, and which has been thesubject of innumerable descriptions in proseand poetry. Perhaps the most beautiful ofthese is the poem of Stopford Brooke, entitledthe Jungfraus Cry: I, wgin of the snows, have lived Uncounted years apart;Mated with sunlight, stars, and heaven. But I am cold at THE BERNESE OBERLAND ate iui^lil)()urlu)()(l, reached by short walksamid delightful scenery, such as Ileimweh-fluh, Rugen, the ruins of Lnspunnen, Hoh-biihl, and Bonigcn; there arc the more dis-tant trips sucli as Beatcnberg and Thun onthe Lake of Thun; and tlie similar trij)s onthe companion lake of IJrienz, especially thefamous waterfall of the (jicsshach, one of themost popular of all spots in the Bernese Ober-land, where we see the great body of waterleaping in seven cascades, from rock to rock,in the miflst of the dark green foliage of theforest, the total height of the falls being nearlyone thousan<l feet. Still more distant, and a hard yet exceed-ingly pleasant trip is that of the SchynigePlatte and the Faulhorn, from which we get amagnificent near at hand view of the wholerange of Bernese mountains. !Much has been said of the Fremden-industrie of Switzerland, the exploitation offoreign tourists; and it is true t
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