SWITZERLAND.

CONTENTS OF SECTION I.

LIST OF ROUTES.

The names of many places are necessarily repeated in several Routes; but to facilitate

reference, they are printed in Italies only in those Routes under which they are fully.

described.

§ 1. PASSPORTS AND CUSTOM-HOUSES.

THE passport system is abolished in Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, France, Italy, Prussia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, and Austria. Notwithstanding this no English traveller should venture abroad for a journey of any length without a passport as a proof of his nationality, and as a means of identification. He may otherwise be marched under arrest, for miles along a hot, dusty road, to some Sous Prefêt's residence, under the suspicion of his not being an Englishman at all. A passport can be procured at the Foreign-Office, Downing Street, by leaving or sending a letter of recommendation from any M.P., or London banker, magistrate, clergyman, solicitor, or surgeon, and calling or sending the next day for the passport, for which a fee of 2s. is charged. The visa of the Austrian ambassador in London is no longer required.

Those who have not time or a servant at their disposal should forward their letters of recommendation to Lee, 440, Strand, or to Dorrell and Son, 15, Charing Cross, who for a small charge will procure the passports and visas, and will also mount the passport in a case, which some travellers prefer.

Custom-houses.-The Swiss now levy import-dues only on a few bulky articles, and no examination of passengers' luggage is made on entering or leaving the country. Examinations are made on entering France, Italy, Austria, or the German States.