Summer Mountain - Stations in Switzerland: the District of Lakes Brienz and Thun
1878; BMJ; Volume: 2; Issue: 934 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.2.934.763
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
ResumoIII.,BEING aware that there were several mountain sanitaria in the vicinity .ofthese lakes much esteemed by Swiss and German physicians, I de- termined to visit them.I, therefore, crossed the Brunig Alps by the pass of that name, leaving the lake of Lucernie at Stansstad, and pass- ing by Alpnach, Sarnen, and Lunzen.At the summit of the Brunig, there is a homely, tolerably sheltered mountain pension, Hotel Brunig- kulm (3,340 feet), which would offer a picturesque, cheap, healthy mountain retreat.The stations which I subsequently visited are: The Giesbach, 2,400 feet; Interlaken, I,863; Grindelwald, 3,468; Murren, 5,348; St. Beatenberg, 3,767; Weissenberg, 2,940; and Gurnigel, 3,7$3 feet.The Brunig road strikes the lake of Brienz (1,857 feet) at ..the town of that name.Thence the steamer takes the traveller in a few minutes to the landing-place for Giesbach.The road ascends for -5oo feet through a fir forest, to terminate on t-he terrace of a splendid hotel, recently built, that of Giesbach (2,400 feet).There is an older building in the background, which now constitutes the pension or boarding-house, the palatial hotel not receiving boarders.The chief attractir n to Giesbach is its succession of beautiful waterfalls; and a constant stream of tourists fill the hotel, remaining one, two, or more days.he level walk in the fir-forest, the picturesque views, the beauti-
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