 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 622 Seiten
...the year ; and it is often possible to stand between spring and summer, so as to collect snow with one hand, and to pluck flowers from the soil with...valuable, and which serve to embellish the landscape. But none of the streams are navigable. The lake of Zurich, one of the largest in Switzerland, is twentyfive... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 Seiten
...the year ; and it is often possible to stand between spring and summer, so as to collect snow with one hand, and to pluck flowers from the soil with...valuable, and which serve to embellish the landscape. But none of the streams are navigable. The lake of Zürich, one of the largest in Switzerland, is twentyfive... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 626 Seiten
...the year ; and it is often possible to stand between spring and summer, so as to collect snow with one hand, and to pluck flowers from the soil with...other. Every mountain has its waterfalls ; and, as then- sources are sometimes lost in the clouds, the cataracts seem to descend from the skies. Switzerland... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 620 Seiten
...the year ; and it is often possible to stand between spring and summer, so as to collect snow with one hand, and to pluck flowers from the soil with...seem to descend from the skies. Switzerland abounds iu lakes and rivers, the fisheries of which are valuable, and which serve to embellish the landscape.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 Seiten
...the year ; and it is often possible to stand between spring and summer, so as to collect snow with one hand, and to pluck flowers from the soil with...valuable, and which serve to embellish the landscape ; but none of the rivers are navigable. Small steam-vessels now ply on the lakes of Geneva, Zurich,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 828 Seiten
...other. Every mountain has its wateraU : and a« their sources are sometimes lost in the c¡ .udí, the cataracts seem to descend from the skies. .Switzerland...'valuable, and which serve to embellish the landscape; but none of the rivers are navigable. >ra*II steam-vessels now ply on the lakes of Geneva, Zarich,... | |
 | 1847 - 568 Seiten
...often possible to stand between spring and summer, so as almost to collect snow with one hand, and pluck flowers from the soil with the other. Every...seem to descend from the skies. Switzerland abounds ill lakes and rivers, the fisheries of which are valuable, and which serve to embellish the landscape.... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 618 Seiten
...the year ; and it is often possible to stand between spring and summer, so as to collect snow with one hand, and to pluck flowers from the soil with...valuable, and which serve to embellish the landscape. But none of the streams are navigable. The lake of Zurich, one of the largest in Switzerland, is twentyfive... | |
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... continual alternation of hill and valley affords the most striking natural scenes in every part of Switzerland. In some places, within a short distance, one may see at the same time all the seasons of the year ; and it is often possible to stand between... 