The Editor of the HANDBOOK for SWITZERLAND, PIEDMONT, SAVOY, is very solicitous to be favoured with corrections of any akes and omissions which may be discovered by persons who have e use of the book. Those communications especially will be welcomed ch are founded upon personal knowledge, and accompanied by the ne of the writer to authenticate them. Travellers willing to make such nmunications are requested to have the kindness to address them to the itor of the HANDBOOK, care of Mr. Murray, Albemarle Street. CAUTION TO TRAVELLERS.-By a recent Act of Parliament, the introduction nto England of foreign pirated Editions of the works of British authors, in which the copyright subsists, is totally prohibited. Travellers will therefore bear in mind that even a single copy is contraband, and is liable to seizure at the English Custom-house. CAUTION TO INNKEEPERS AND OTHERS.-The Editor of the Handbooks has learned from various quarters that a person or persons have of late been extorting money from innkeepers, tradespeople, artists, and others, on the Continent, under pretext of procuring recommendations and favourable notices of them and their establishments in the Handbooks for Travellers. The Editor therefore thinks proper to warn all whom it may concern, that recommendations in the Handbooks are not to be obtained by purchase, and that the persons alluded to are not only unauthorised by him, but are totally unknown to him. All those, therefore, who put confidence in such promises, may rest assured that they will be defrauded of their money without attaining their object.-1851. Certificates in praise of Inns must be signed by respectable and well-known persons. No attention can be paid to letters from Hotelkeepers in praise of their own inns; no letters received unless pre-paid. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES & SONS, STAMFORD STREET, А HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SWITZERLAND, AND THE ALPS OF SAVOY AND PIEDMONT. Twelfth Edition, CORRECTED; WITH TRAVELLING MAPS, PLANS OF TOWNS, ETC. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET; PARIS: A. & W. GALIGNANI & CO.; STASSIN & XAVIER. 1867. The right of Translation is reserved. CAMBRIDGE, MASS PREFACE. THE Handbook for Switzerland has now reached the twelfth edition, and owes its success, and the favour of travellers, and the number of imitators it has found in France and Germany, to the circumstance that its information was drawn from practical knowledge of the country, gained on the spot; and that it was not a mere compilation from other books. The author, in the first instance by his own travels through the country, and afterwards by the aid of experienced editors whom he has called in to revise the book, has endeavoured to bring down the information of every edition to the time of its appearance, taking note of all changes and improvements that have occurred. The Handbook was the first guide which, instead of stopping short north of the Great Chain, carried travellers down to the more sunny and beautiful peaks and valleys of the Italian Alps. It still remains the only complete single Guide-book for Savoy and Piedmont, as well as for Switzerland. These regions, previously a terra incognita to Englishmen, are now equally resorted to and held in as great repute for the beauty and grandeur of their scenery. The routes in the Handbook have been rearranged, as far as possible, to suit the convenience of travellers-all changes and improvements in roads, railways, and steamers have been noticed-and a vast number of new roads over little-known Alpine Passes have been described in the present and preceding editions. Plans of the principal towns are added. This edition is corrected as far as possible up to the time of publication, and contains notices of the railways which now bring Switzerland almost, as it were, to our own door. An Index has been prepared for the Swiss Handbook, independent of the Section relating to Savoy and Piedmont; and as each is furnished with a map, the two parts may be bound up separately for convenience, without injuring the completeness of either. 'The Knapsack Guide to Switzerland, Savoy, and Piedmont, 2nd Edition, Corrected, 1867,' furnishes a more portable and succinct Guide to those countries. |