Memoirs of a Family in Swisserland [by a Ormsby]

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER XXXVII, From the fame to the fame. Baden, Augujt 7. arrived here in excellent health and fpirits, after a very pleafing expedition on the Limmat; and 1 feize the firft leifure moment to affure my deareft friend Angelica, that fhe lives continually in Gertrude's fond 'remembrance. Leaving the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER XXXVII, From the fame to the fame. Baden, Augujt 7. arrived here in excellent health and fpirits, after a very pleafing expedition on the Limmat; and 1 feize the firft leifure moment to affure my deareft friend Angelica, that fhe lives continually in Gertrude's fond 'remembrance. Leaving the 'delightful environs of Zurich, as.the fun rofe we beheld his beams glittering on the river, which rolls to the lake his tributary .ftream. The .Idylls of Geffher had lately been our ftudy; and we. quitted thofe fceues with regretregret, which had infpired the touching verfes of the immortal poet. The borders of the Limmat, which, at our firft embarkation, exhibited a flat, fwelled, as we advanced, into fylvan hills, clothed with rich paflures, and enclofures of vine; and, as we approached Baden, rofe into fteep banks, fringed to the water's edge with picturefque and hanging trees, the pendent branches in many places drooping into the ftream. Baden is not remarkable for any thing, except having been a Roman fortrefs; and on that account, I could not help viewing it with veneration. On the day after our arrival we made an excurfion to vifu the ruins of the caflle of Hapfburg. It ftands on the fide of a hill, crowned with variegated woods; and our way to it afcended through a dark grove of beech, which appearedappeared as ancient as the mouldering tower it furrounded. Confb ufted with maffy ftones, difcoloured with mofs, and mantled with ivy, it overlooks the adjacent country, through which the Aar, descending in torrents from the neighbouring mountains, and fpreadiug into a vafl bafon in the vale below, thence precipitates its foaming current down narrow glens among the rocks to wind its. courfe jnajeftically through wide and fenile plains. From the ruins...