Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : Handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker. With nineteen maps, seven plans and seven panoramas.

Karl Baedeker

Date:: 1867

Credit: Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : Handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker. With nineteen maps, seven plans and seven panoramas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$-,isses the river tliree times at short intervals: 2/4 M. first bridge, i.uilt in 173cS; V} M. second bridge, built in 1739; IVt third juvid'^e C^G? ft.), tilt in 1834. The scene is most imposing M t'he vicinity of the * mid die (second) bridge. The Rhine, ' lOO ft. below the road, winds through a ravine ^so narrow that the precipices above almost meet. On Aug. 27th, 1834, the Miver rose to witliin a few feet of the arch of the bridge. The -xtortious of the Bernese Oherland are here vividly recalled to iinind by the apparition of a man who huris stones into the abyss for the delectation of travellers. At the upper Cthird) bridge l erected after the inundation of 1834) the Via Mala , The. road now enters the more open Valley ofScharns (ibbd It.) fValUs Sexarnniensis, valley of the six streams, which descend iVom the mountains on the r. and 1., Ital. Sessame), the green meadows and cheerful habitarions of which look doubly attractive to the traveller after the sombre passage of the Via Mala. In the backKronnd to the S. are the peaks of the HirU {O.Ub ft). Above the old bridge, the Rhine forms a small waterlall. Ihe first village in the valley of Schams (6 M. from Thusis) is Zillis, Kom. Ciraun fRefreshments at the post-stat.), with the most an- ient church In the valley, of which the tower is the oldest part *Piz Beverin (9234 ft.), cr.nirnanrliiig a mapiificent prospect, may best, 1.. ascetiderl from ,SV/»rm.s 7-8 hrs.; guirie 5 fr. A very latigiung excur- sion, hut, iin;ittendefl willi dnnErev. . On the eminence to (he r,, on the I. bank of the Rhine, above the village ofDonat behind which rises the P/s Bcverm, stands the ruined castle of Fardim. or La Turr, the ancient residence oi the governor of the valley. About the middle of the li.)th cent., the brutal behaviour of one of these officials, like that ot Gessler 1.50 years prnviou.sly, gave ri.se to the deliverance of this district irom their oppre,ssive sway. Having entered the cottage ot a peasant, against whom he harboured some resentful ieeliiig, the tyrant spat into the boiling broth prepared for the midday meal. The peasant, Jo/iann CaUlar, seized him by the throat, plunged liis head into the scalding liquid, exclaiming: Eat the soup ihoii hast seasone.l (Malgia srz il r<M rka U has condiit), and -IranKled him. This was the .sigmil for a general rising. Near the Batk.t of Pimm ftlestroyed by an inundation in 1834, and afterwards by fire; the waters, which contain iron ind alkali, arc conveyed by a conduit to Andeer, and there used lor baths) a glacier-torrent is crossed by a liridg(!, which was the last completed on this route and bears the following inscrip- lion on the J<]. parapet: .Jam via paid ko.slJIni.'i el am.ici.n. Cavek llliaeU! xirnjilifila^ moruin el unio xfTvabunl avitani. Ubertatcm. 7V2 M. Andeer (3001 ft.) (*Krone or//oict y'Vayij, principal villasre of (he valley, with a Frot. ilomansch i)op. of 581. Near the village stands the lower of the castle of CaMellalsdi; fine view of the valley from the church (^erected in 1673).$