Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume VI

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume VI

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Title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume VI
Author: Various
Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11179]
Language: English
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SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS
EDITED BY FRANCIS W. HALSEY

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland
Part Two
VI. HUNGARY--(_Continued_)
HUNGARIAN BATHS AND RESORTS--By H. Tornai de K?v?r
THE GIPSIES--By H. Tornai de K?v?r
VII. AUSTRIA'S ADRIATIC PORTS
TRIESTE AND POLA--By Edward A. Freeman
SPALATO--By Edward A. Freeman
RAGUSA--By Harry De Windt
CATTARO--By Edward A. Freeman
VIII. OTHER AUSTRIAN SCENES
CRACOW--By M��nie Muriel Dowie
ON THE ROAD TO PRAGUE--By Bayard Taylor
THE CAVE OF ADELSBERG--By George Stillman Hillard
THE MONASTERY OF M?LK--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin
THROUGH THE TYROL--By William Cullen Bryant
IN THE DOLOMITES--By Archibald Campbell Knowles
CORTINA--By Amelia B. Edwards
IX. ALPINE RESORTS
THE CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS--By Frederick Harrison
INTERLAKEN AND THE JUNGFRAU--By Archibald Campbell Knowles
THE ALTDORF OF WILLIAM TELL--By W.D. M'Crackan
LUCERNE--By Victor Tissot
ZURICH--By W.D. M'Crackan
THE RIGI--By W.D. M'Crackan
CHAMOUNI--AN AVALANCHE--By Percy Bysshe Shelley
ZERMATT--By Archibald Campbell Knowles
PONTRESINA AND ST. MORITZ--By Victor Tissot
GENEVA--By Francis H. Gribble
THE CASTLE OF CHILLON--By Harriet Beecher Stowe
BY RAIL UP THE GORNER-GRAT--By Archibald Campbell Knowles
THROUGH THE ST. GOTHARD INTO ITALY--By Victor Tissot
X. ALPINE MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
FIRST ATTEMPTS HALF A CENTURY AGO--By Edward Whymper
FIRST TO THE TOP O THE MATTERHORN--By Edward Whymper
THE LORD FRANCIS DOUGLAS TRAGEDY--By Edward Whymper
AN ASCENT OF MONTE ROSA (1858)--By John Tyndall
MONT BLANC ASCENDED, HUXLEY GOING PART WAY--By John Tyndall
THE JUNGFRAU-JOCH--By Sir Leslie Stephen
XI. OTHER ALPINE TOPICS
THE GREAT ST. BERNARD HOSPICE--By Archibald Campbell Knowles
AVALANCHES--By Victor Tissot
HUNTING THE CHAMOIS--By Victor Tissot
THE CELEBRITIES OF GENEVA--By Francis H. Gribble
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME VI
Frontispiece THE MATTERHORN
KURSAAL AT MARIENBAD
MARIENBAD, AUSTRIA
MONASTERY OF ST. ULRIC AND AFRA, AUGSBURG
MONASTERY OF M?LK ON THE DANUBE ABOVE VIENNA
MEMORIAL TABLET AND ROAD IN THE IRON GATE OF THE DANUBE
QUAY AT FIUME
ROYAL PALACE IN BUDAPEST
HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, BUDAPEST
SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE DANUBE AT BUDAPEST
STREET IN BUDAPEST
CATHEDRAL OF SPALATO
REGUSA, DALMATIA
MIRAMAR
GENEVA
REGATTA DAY ON LAKE GENEVA
VITZNAU, THE LAKE TERMINUS OF THE RIGI RAILROAD
RHINE FALLS NEAR SCHAFFHAUSEN
PONTRESINA IN THE ENGADINE
ST. MORITZ IN THE ENGADINE
FRIBOURG
BERNE
VIVEY, LAKE GENEVA
THE TURNHALLE, ZURICH
INTERLAKEN
LUCERNE
VIADUCTS ON AN ALPINE RAILWAY
THE WOLFORT VIADUCT
BALMAT--SAUSSURE MONUMENT IN CHAMONIX
ROOFED WOODEN BRIDGE AT LUCERNE
THE CASTLE OF CHILLON
CLOUD EFFECT ABOVE INTERLAKEN
DAVOS IN WINTER
[Illustration: THE KURSAL AT MARIENBAD]
[Illustration: MARIENBAD, AUSTRIA]
[Illustration: THE MONASTERY OF ST. ULRIC AND AFRA, AT AUGSBURG IN BAVARIA]
[Illustration: THE MONASTERY OF M?LK ON THE DANUBE ABOVE VIENNA]
[Illustration: MEMORIAL TABLET AND ROAD IN THE IRON GATE OF THE DANUBE]
[Illustration: THE QUAY OF THE FIUME AT THE HEAD OF THE ADRIATIC]
[Illustration: THE ROYAL PALACE AT BUDAPEST]
[Illustration: THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AT BUDAPEST]
[Illustration: THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE DANUBE AT BUDAPEST]
[Illustration: STREET IN BUDAPEST]
[Illustration: THE CATHEDRAL OF SPALATO Burial-place of the Emperor Diocletian]
[Illustration: REGUSA, DALMATIA]
[Illustration: MIRAMAR Long the home of the ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico]
[Illustration: GENEVA]
[Illustration: REGATTA DAY ON LAKE GENEVA]
[Illustration: VITZNAU, THE LAKE TERMINUS OF THE RIGI RAILROAD]
[Illustration: THE RHINE FALLS NEAR SCHAFFHAUSEN]

VI

HUNGARY
(_Continued_)
HUNGARIAN BATHS AND RESORTS[1]
BY H. TORNAI DE K?V?R
In Hungary there are great quantities of unearthed riches, and not only in the form of gold. These riches are the mineral waters that abound in the country and have been the natural medicine of the people for many years. Water in itself was always worshiped by the Hungarians in the earliest ages, and they have found out through experience for which ailment the different waters may be used. There are numbers of small watering-places in the most primitive state, which are visited by the peasants from far and wide, more especially those that are good for rheumatism.
Like all people that work much in the open, the Hungarian in old age feels the aching of his limbs. The Carpathians are full of such baths, some of them quite primitive; others are used more as summer resorts, where the well-to-do town people build their villas; others, again, like T��tra F��red, T��tra Lomnicz, Csorba, and many others, have every accommodation and are visited by people from all over Europe. In former times Germans and Poles were the chief visitors, but now people come from all parts to look at the wonderful ice-caves (where one can skate in the hottest summer), the waterfalls, and the great pine forests, and make walking, driving, and riding tours right up to the snow-capped mountains, preferring the comparative quiet of this Alpine district to that of Switzerland. Almost every place has some special mineral water, and among the greatest wonders of Hungary are the hot mud-baths of P?sty��n.
This place is situated at the foot of the lesser Carpathians, and is easily reached from the main line of the railway. The scenery is lovely and the air healthy, but this is nothing