Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont The routes in the Handbook have been rearranged, as far as possible, to suit the convenience of travellers - all chan es and improvements in roads, railways, and steamers have been notic - and a vast number of new roads over little-known Al ine.passes have been described in the present and preceding editions. Lans 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 i were, to our own door. 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.