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Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Switzerland
Cook's Tourist's Handbook for Switzerland Author:Thomas Cook Ltd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONSTANCE TO COIRE (CHUR). The journey may be made by boat to Rorschach, and thence by rail, or the whole route by rail, the line skirting the bank of the Lak... more »e as far as to Rorschach. In either case the principal places passed will be Kreuzlingen (p. 28), Munsterlingen, (with a large lunatic asylum, formerly a monastery), Altnau, Giittingen, Kessweil, Uttweil, Romanshorn (a steamboat- station, eight miles from Friedrichshafen, and a junction with line to Winterthur), Egnach, Arbon (once the Roman Arbor Felix), Horn (with its good bath), and then Rorschach. RORSCHACH. (Hotel Seehof.) Behind the town, which has a population of 3492, is a hill called the Rorschacher Berg, commanding a view of the entire length of Constance and the Alps of the Orisons. There are some old castles dotted about on hills, some good baths not far off from the town, and very pretty walks and drives, and the air is said to be very beneficial to invalids. It is not, however, a place to choose for a lengthened stay. A large traffic passes through here or by the coast steamers from Romanshorn, across the lake to Lindau, where it is transhipped from steamer to railway for Bavaria, Austria, etc. It was a busy place during the late war, as it was the route selected for traffic from the eastern line from France. The trip to Bregenz can be made from this town by steamer (p. 29). Leaving Rorschach, the lake is skirted and the valley of the Rhine is entered. Rheineck is a pleasant village, situated in a bend in the river, and surrounded with vineyards; travellers who are seeking the Molken-kur, or Whey-cure (made of goat's milk) alight here for Heiden, said to be one of the cleanest and healthiest towns in Switzerland. Diligence twice daily, iŁ hour. From Heiden a diligence runs to St. Gallen ...« less