Switzerland, its scenery, history, and literary associations . book of legends in which the storyof Pilate is given: how full of despair and re-morse after the death of the Saviour, he com-mitted suicide; how the Emperor ordered thebody to be placed in a sack and sunk into theriver Tiber; how the sack would not sink intothe water nor remain underground, and howevil spirits would raise it in the air; how stormand tempest, thunder and lightning and floodsarose wherever it was placed; how the body was?brought from Rome to South France and flunginto the river Rhone near the city of Vienne;how the
Switzerland, its scenery, history, and literary associations . book of legends in which the storyof Pilate is given: how full of despair and re-morse after the death of the Saviour, he com-mitted suicide; how the Emperor ordered thebody to be placed in a sack and sunk into theriver Tiber; how the sack would not sink intothe water nor remain underground, and howevil spirits would raise it in the air; how stormand tempest, thunder and lightning and floodsarose wherever it was placed; how the body was?brought from Rome to South France and flunginto the river Rhone near the city of Vienne;how the boats that passed this place wouldsink and be destroyed; until the body wastaken up again, and the sack with the ac-cursed body of Pilate was carried to a highmountain between the towns of Lucerne andUnterwalden, and there in a deep pond,loaded with heavy stones, was sunk; and everyyear on Good Friday his spirit rises and sitsupon the Judgment seat, as if he were deliver-ing judgment; and the inhabitants of Lucerneset watchmen day and night near the same84. THE BIRTHPLACE OF SWISS LIBERTY pool, to prevent any one from casting stonesor pieces of wood into the pond, for if this isdone, great storms and water-spouts arise anddeath and destruction follow. To-day, however, Mt. Pilatus is one of themost popular of all the famous view-points ofSwitzerland. It is reached by a rack-and-pinion railroad, which starts from Alpnach-stad, a station on the Briinig railroad, not farfrom Lucerne. Passing among beautiful pas-tures and forests on its lower slopes, throughtunnels, over deep gorges, we finally reachthe broad plateau of the Esel, where a magnif-icent view is seen. Far more popular than the Pilatus, and farmore famous is the Rigi. Long before manyof the popular resorts Were even heard of,the Rigi was known; — and to-day this Queenof the mountains, as some would interpretthe name (Rigi = Regina Montium), is oneof the most famous mountains of the while it is not so high as
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