A Little Journey To Switzerland PDF Download

Excerpt from A Little Journey to Switzerland: For Intermediate and Upper Grades Did you ever hear of the "Play Ground of Europe?" But there is one, a very delightful one, and to its charming lakes and glorious mountains many thousands of wearied people go every year, for rest and recreation. This playground is about one-third as large as the State of New York. Its name is Switzerland. It is one of the smallest and most mountainous countries of Europe. Many of its square miles stand on end in the form of mountains and glaciers. It boasts of the highest ranges of the Alps, some of the peaks being almost three miles high. Many of these lofty peaks are covered with snow, winter and summer. Nearly two-thirds of Switzerland consists of lakes and mountains, which leave little room for large ranches and farms. The farms are so very small that we could almost fold them up and put them in our pockets. Only one-ninth of the land is tilled, and there is a population of 3,119,635 to be fed. Then, again, the Swiss have no sea-coast, which hampers their trade across the ocean; their summer seasons are short, and crops often fail to ripen as they should. Avalanches and storms at times tear down almost as fast as the people can build. What do the people do? Mountains and glaciers are all very well to look at, but they do not yield crops. 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.