. Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers. pedestrian may avoid theseby taking the old path. from Avhich, however, the view is in-ferior. To the near Andermatt, the Oberalp route is visible(R. 78). In descending, the road is quitted a few hundredpaces beyond the 50th by several steps on the 1. ;in ascending, it is left 50 paces beyond the first bridge, 3^4 Realp. Realp (5034) is a village consisting of a few poor Hugo, a successor of the hospitable Capuchins, now pre-sides over a modest establishment a


. Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers. pedestrian may avoid theseby taking the old path. from Avhich, however, the view is in-ferior. To the near Andermatt, the Oberalp route is visible(R. 78). In descending, the road is quitted a few hundredpaces beyond the 50th by several steps on the 1. ;in ascending, it is left 50 paces beyond the first bridge, 3^4 Realp. Realp (5034) is a village consisting of a few poor Hugo, a successor of the hospitable Capuchins, now pre-sides over a modest establishment at his * Hospit- Realp (ex-cellent wine; bed 1. B. 1 fr.). Adjacent is the Hotel (B. 1, B. 1, D. l/.2—2A2 fr.). The sequestered Valley of TJrseren, or TJrner-Thal, wateredby the Reuss, 9 M. long, 3/^ y[ wide, enclosed between moun-tains partially covered with snow, possesses excellent Realp the new road crosses the Dorfbach, the E. dischargeof the Tiefen Glacier (N. rises the Lochberg, ), reaches(II/4 M.) the Alp Steinherg, and then in a direct line traverses. 015KRGKSTKLKX. 34. Route. 139 the bottom of the valley, overo:rown with brushwood, as far asri3/4 M.) Zum Borf. To the 1. in the forearound, on the of the valley, tower the jag;ged peaks of the Spitzlibergri0,049l. From this point to (2V4 M.) Hospenthal f^TS?)(see p. 79), where the St. Gotthard route is entered. the roadremains on the r. bank of the Keuss. Thence by the St. Gott-hard road to (I/., M.) Andermatt (M^AI). see p. 79. 34. From the Rhone Glacier to Vispach. Eggischhorn. 35I-.; 51- Diligence to Brie? (31 M.) once daily fin the afternoon) ino hrs. fto Miinster 11(2, Viesch 13J4, Brio? I3J4 hr.): coupe 9 fr. 55 c, interienr7 fr. 85 c. (in the reverse direction the diligence takes 7 hrs.). From Briepin Vispacli (4|) diligence twice daily in 2,4 hr. The now Carriage-road (Furca route, conip. p. 136) was traversedin 1867 for the first time hy a diligence, of which conveyanc


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