Excerpt from Beautiful Switzerland: In This Series Have Already Appeared: Lucerne, Chamonix, Villars and Champ ry Lausanne Promenade laden with the myriad flower-spikes of the horse-chestnut trees. Spring is earlier here - some ten days earlier in May - than away at the very feet of the Alps. We may well be content, then, to remain awhile amid such vernal freshness, studying the life and history of the town of the wooden storks' nests and revelling on the quay in the Alpine panorama framed by the soft blue sky and blue-green waters a panorama which is never more delightful than at this season of the year, never even in autumn when October clears the atmosphere, robes the near hills in fire, deepens the blue colouring of distant rock and forest, and spreads a new white drapery upon the higher peaks. 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.