Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands - Volume 2 - By Harriet Beecher Stowe




































































































 -  Drove through the beautiful Rhone valley, past the
celebrated fall of the Pissevache, and about five o'clock reached the
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Drove Through The Beautiful Rhone Valley, Past The Celebrated Fall Of The Pissevache, And About Five O'clock Reached The Hotel Byron, On The Shore Of The Lake.

LETTER XXXVII.

HOTEL BYRON.

MY DEAR: -

Here I am, sitting at my window, overlooking Lake Leman. Castle Chillon, with its old conical towers, is silently pictured in the still waters. It has been a day of a thousand. We took a boat, with two oarsmen, and passed leisurely along the shores, under the cool, drooping branches of trees, to the castle, which is scarce a stone's throw from the hotel. We rowed along, close under the walls, to the ancient moat and drawbridge. There I picked a bunch of blue bells, "les clochettes," which were hanging their aerial pendants from every crevice - some blue, some white.

[Illustration: _of blue bell flowers with sharp-bladed leaves._]

I know not why the old buildings and walls in Europe have this vivacious habit of shooting out little flowery ejaculations and soliloquies at every turn. One sees it along through France and Switzerland, every where; but never, that I remember, in America.

On the side of the castle wall, in a large white heart, is painted the inscription, _Liberte et Patrie_!

We rowed along, almost touching the castle rock, where the wall ascends perpendicularly, and the water is said to be a thousand feet deep. We passed the loopholes that illuminate the dungeon vaults, and an old arch, now walled up, where prisoners, after having been strangled, were thrown into the lake.

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