Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Engadine and St. Gotthard Railway: A Part of Underwood and Underwood's Stereoscopic Tour Through Switzerland
Forty years ago there were bears on the lower slopes of the Roseg, but those animals, which used to be so com mon in Switzerland centuries ago, are now practically extinct in these regions. Indeed the chamois themselves, whose chase used to give a large number of native Swiss their distinctive profession and means of livelihood, are becoming fewer and fewer. A few years ago one of the chamois hunters of this neighborhood, crossing a glacier on the Roseg, fell into a deep crevasse and escaped in a way similar to that of a man down in the Unter Grindel wald. He was so fortunate as to fall completely through the great crevasse and come out underneath the surface of the glacier by following the course of one of the streams which carried oif the melting ice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
