INDEX

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, Z

Index

Adneter Kalk, pink marble, 143, 181 Aldertree, connected with name of province, 153 Alemannic settlement of province, 62; specimen of dialect, 139 Algäu-schiefer, Liassic shale, 145, 148 Alpila, alp, 62 Alpine rose (rhododendron), 6, 136, 143 Anna, the old nurse, her passion for idiots and corpses, 39-40; for wolf-stories, 214; gets it hot, 95; shakes chocolate from a tree, 213; not old at all, 214 Ants, unreliable workmen, 124 Aretius, botanist, 240 Arlberg, mountain pass, boundary of province, 53; railway under, 150; derivation of name, 153; wine transport over, 197 Aurora borealis, 5 Badger, a tame, 28; its fat, 116 Bädle inn (Nüziders), 186 Bädle inn (Tiefis), 135 Baedeker, 150 Bährenloch, artificial cavern, 26-28, 125, 184 Bats, as pets, 28 Bears, 188 Beautification Society, of Bludenz, 27, 186; of Blumenegg, 172 Beaver, shot on the Elbe, 129 Beds, local, their discomforts, 3; double, their uses, 222 Bergmann, Prof. Joseph, 53 Berlepsch, H. A., 188 Bernhardt, B. (Velcurio), the first married priest, 169 Birds, various, 125-130, 181, 235, 239 Blaufelchen, 206-208. See Coregonus. Bludenz, town, 6, 23, 29, 48, 53, 59, 112, 114, 145, 147, 152, 157, 187, 235; destroyed by fire, 132; its museum, 139; height above sea-level, 184 Bludesch, village, 44, 46, 48, 60, 163, 190, 234; derivation of name, 62; its former vineyards, 198; old school-house, 215; Krone inn, 216 Blumenegg, castle-ruin, origin of name, 72; its charm and history, 74-80; waterfall, 75, 172; popular reception of its lords, 55; their enactments, 136; contrasted with Jagdberg ruin, 174 Boar, wild, 187 Bock, Hieronymus, botanist, 73 Bolshevism, manufacture of, 113 Brand, village, 157 Bratz, village, 111 Bregenz, town, 53, 129, 187; museum and libraries, 151, 181, 198, 214, 216; Protestant cemetery, 200; ostensible reasons for going there, 198; real reason, 206 Bregenzerwald, district, 32, 53, 187 Brehm, A. E., 184 Bruhin, Th. A., monk-naturalist, 91-93; on woodpecker, 129; on salamandra maculosa, 184; on wild beasts of province, 187, 188; Professor at Meherau, 199 Brunnenmacher (father) mountaineer, presumably hirsute, 25; (son) mountaineer, indubitably hirsute, 25; his smile and his blasphemies, 25, 26; takes author in hand, 28, 128 Buchboden, village, 91 Bulrushes, 100, 231 Bürs, village, 126, 127, 179, 185 Bürserberg, village, 126 Butter, smuggled into Switzerland, 114 Butterflies, various, 7, 117, 118, 169; frozen on snowfield, 158 Capercailzie, 60-61 Castle-ruins, their charming designations, 72 Celtic inhabitants of province, 62, 151, 152; hill-fort, 151; place-names, 169 Cement, an abomination, 77, 132, 225 Cemeteries, poetic German names for, 71 Chamois, 101, 144, 145; shoots taken by Swiss, 33; how to bag, 157 “Château aux fenêtres.” See Jordan Chronicon Hirsaugiense, destroyed by fire, 78 Cider, getting tipsy on, 237 Climate, grows damper, 197 Clutterbuck, Mr., a droll personage, 224 Cocoa, an abomination, 10 Cockchafer. See Engerlinge. Coffee, how to roast, 34 Constance, lake of, 6, 53, 129, 152, 198 Coregonus, a delectable fish, 206 Costumes, local, 53 Cotterill, H. B., 85 Cotton mills, family property, 61, 64 Cows, explode from over-eating, 208 Crayfish, 44 Crétins, not discoverable hereabouts, 39 Currency, effects of its depreciation, 109-15 Dachshund, lady-dog, sets a bad example, 4 Dalaas, village, 139, 149, 180 Dalla Torre, Prof. quoted, 93 Dolls, massacre of, 217 Dorfberg, an ancient road, 40, 41 Dornbirn, borough, 188 Douglass, John, why he settled in Austria, 62; his way with beggars, 64, 66 Douglass, John Sholto, climbs the Zimba, 21-23; president of provincial Alpine Club, 24; carries on business of his father, 66; his paper on Rothe Wand, 137; fatal accident, 138, 144, 148-150; writings, 150-154; Lünersee hut called after him, 159; discovers mammoth-tusk, 181; his disciplinary measures, 222, 223 Drei Schwestern, mountain, 245 Druso, Drusenfluh, etc., pre-Roman names, 153 Drusus, Roman general, 62, 152 Düns, village, 169 Edelweiss, 8, 245 Edelraute, plant, 143 Education, in France, 14; a sound, 40 Elephant-trap, a disused, 117 Elk, discovery of skull and horns of, 139 Els alp, 147 Elser Schröfen, cliffs, crossing their talus, 145-147; due to disrupture, 147 Engerlinge, cockchafer-larvæ, destructive to crops, 110 Erratic blocks, 180, 189, 190, 234 Eulenloch, dell, 44 Falling in love, with a mountain, 30 Falster, torrent, 72; derivation of name, 63 Feldbächle, stream, 61, 235; going to bed in, 63. See Montiola. Feldkirch, town, 53, 73, 115, 150, 152, 169; former vineyards at, 197 Fire, destruction of villages by 42, 71, 126-128 Fishery regulations of 1690, 136 Florimont. See Blumenegg. Flowers, favorite, 73, 180 Fön wind, derivation of name, 63; responsible for outbreaks of fire, 71, 134; transports butterflies, 158 Fontanella, village, 62 Food, local specialties, 11-12 “Forêt nordique,” tract of wood, 135, 136 Forests, their charm, 41, 42, 102 Formaletsch, mountain, 139 Formarin lake, 139, 143, 144, 155, 181; derivation of name, 63 Fossils, where found, 181 Fox, as pet, 28; civil behavior of a, 182 Frastafeders, castle-ruin, 63 Frastanz, village, 137, 245; battle of, 220 Freiburger hut, 181 Freytag, Gustav, 80 Furkla alp, 6, 147 Gais, locality, 62, 66, 224 Galgen-tobel, torrent, 29, 147, 184 Gamperdona, alp, 244; derivation of name, 63 Gamsboden, mountain, 143 seq. Garnets, hunting for, 54, 180 Gasünd, hamlet, 126 Geiger, Dr., prescribes only camomile, 46 Gentians, 240 Gesner, Conrad, 240 Gleziska, meadow, 213, 214 Gluttony, when to be discouraged, 12; when permissible, 13 Goats, legislation regarding, 136 Goitre, 43 Grabherr, Joseph, on Blumenegg rule, 136 Grand-aunts, the delight of childhood, 41, 47, 96, 218 Grandfather, maternal, a feudal monster, always spick-and-span, 200; excavates in imagination the Acropolis of Athens, 201, 202; tells Prince Consort how to handle Queen Victoria, 202; sometimes mistaken for an angel, 203; dominates his harim, 204, 205; vicious to the last, 205 Grandmother, paternal, applies Gregory’s Powder with unexpected result, 97; her attitude towards tobacco, 100; insists upon recitations of “Marmion” and gets them, 103; devours roly-poly pour encourager les autres, 104 Grimm’s Fairy Tales, occasionally inane, 17 Gross Litzner, mountain, 144 Gstinswald, forest, 72, 73 Halde Wässerle, spring, 184 Halden zu Haldenegg, von der, noble family, 216 Haller, A. von, 221, 240 Hanging Stone, cliff, 73, 77, 134, 180, 186, 187 Hard, village, 129 Hare, how to shoot, 127; how not to cook, 207 Hay-huts, change in style of building, 45, 214, 239 Hexenthurm, rock-needle, 138 Hinedo, Peter, author, 14 Hirsch-sprung (Stag’s Leap), meadow, 42, 44, 45 Hochgerach, mountain, 6 Hohenems, borough, 181 Hoher Frassen, mountain, 6, 137; death on, 24 Honstetter, Karl, taxidermist, 129 Horse-flies, a pest, 61 Hüttenwanzen, not wanted hereabouts, 25 Ibex, a Swiss, 129 Idiots, 13, 37; indifferent specimens of, 38; types of the old school, 39 Ill, river, 53, 55, 59; recently embanked, 54; its prehistoric shore, 148; new bridges over, 230 Jagdberg, castle-ruin, 172-176, 235, 240 Jakob, a villager worth watching, 236 Jordan, ruined mansion, 163 seq., 189 Josefinum, refuge for children, 172 seq. Jumbo the jovial, not like the rest of them, 91 Kanisfluh, mountain, 138, 245 Kaufmann, Angelika, 32, 199 Keilpolster, an abomination, 3 Kirschwasser, present price of, 244 Kloster alp, awful experience on, 7 Krupsertobel, torrent, 29 Kuhloch, natural arch, 126 Lämmergeier, 29, 129 Lagutz, alp, 129, 155; derivation of name, 63 Lake dwellings, former, destroyed by fire, 71; persist into Roman times, 151; relics of, 152; their grape-cultivation, 198 Lamb, Charles, 86 Landregen, a persistent drizzle, 3, 33 Lasko, dog, his well, 229, 230, 231, 234 Lasko the Second, dog, 231 Latz, hamlet, 185 Lauterach, village, 152 Lech, river, 53 Lech, village, 33, 101, 155 Lindau, island, 152 Lindenspeur, G. L. von, builder of Jordan mansion, 163, 174; fond of windows, 165 Lorüns, village, 181, 184 Ludesch, village, 72, 73, 78, 115, 189, 239; its rifle range, 32, 116; derivation of name, 62 Ludescherberg, hamlet, 6, 100 Lünersee, lake, its shelter-hut, 24, 159 Lutz, river, 53, 58, 59, 72, 73; recently embanked, 54; derivation of name, 62; its prehistoric shore, 116; old bridge over, 230 Lynx, 187 MacDougal, Skye-terrier, specializes in cats, 233, 234 Mammoth tusk, 181 Mangili, Prof., 9 Maple trees, 99 Marmot, lives in colonies, 8, 143; its fat, 8; ingratitude of a hibernating, 9; freakish dentition of a, 10; derivation of popular name, 63 Marshes, their vegetation, 44, 240 Martens, 115 Marul, village, 129, 147, 155 Mattli, sportsman and station-master, 127-128; on last wolf, 187 Mauren, village, 151 Mehrerau, convent, 199 Mellau, village, 138 Midwives, raise their tariff, 115 Milton, his botany, 85, 86 Minerals, where found, 180 Moles, destruction of, 110, 115 Mondspitze, Mountain, 6 Montavon, valley, 9, 23, 53, 244 Montiola, brook, 61-64, 125, 135, 137, 235; its source, 136, 138. See Feldbächle. Moralists, their limitations, 86 Münster, Sebastian, 169 Nauders, village, 188 Nenzing, village, 53, 58, 60, 172, 188, 244 Nüziders, village, 148, 186; destroyed by fire, 71, 134 “Nymphe pudique,” fountain, 46, 234 Oak, a memorable, 77 Obdorf, village, 184 Ortler, mountain, 159 Ovid, blunders in botany, 85 Palladas, grammarian, English rendering of his epigram, 167 Peasants, their grievances, 111; catch pneumonia supervising cows at pasture, 209 Petrifying brook, a marvel, 41, 64, 189, 213 Pines, a region of stunted, 59 Pines, dwarf, their local names, 6, 153; deserve protection, 7 Piz Buin, mountain, 150 Piz Linard, mountain, 150 Plumeau, an abomination, 3 Plum-tarts, how to eat, 245 Poets, should avoid towns, 84; generally born naked, 168; talk nonsense about pomegranates, 206 Potatoes, how to cook, 11; local names of, 72 “Pré des papillons,” meadow, 169, 170, 239 Prime, Miss, her dismal experiences as governess, 221 seq. Procter, Adelaide, 198 Prudishness of countryfolk, 236 Quadera, meadow, 62, 74 Quadertatsch, an amiable beast, subject to accidents, 182, 184 Quinet, Edgar, 202 R., Mr., a young brigand, studies the English language, 12 seq.; starts a love affair. 42 seq.; progress of English studies, 165; progress of love affair, 130, 190, 241 Radona-tobel, torrent, 149 Raggal, village, 7, 100, 155; Eldorado of idiots, 37; derivation of name, 63 Ramsay, Dean, 221 Rellsthal, valley, 23, 159 Rhætian inhabitants of province, 62, 151 Rhætikon, mountain-group 7, 21, 99, 182 Rhæto-Roman names, 6, 62-63, 72, 111, 152, 153, 179 Rhine, upper, 6, 53; regulating its river-bed, 54, 152 Riedbach, streamlet, 44, 235; its source, 45, 234 Roedeer, 156, 187 Röns, village, 169 Romans, occupy province, 60, 62, 151; cultivate vine, 198 Romansh names. See Rhæto-Roman. Rosenegg, castle-ruin, 72, 179-182 Rothe Wand, mountain, 137, 143, 148, 150 Rothenbrunnen, mineral spring, 136 “Ruisseau des écrevisses,” 44, 45, 135. See Riedbach. “Runde Scheible,” how they came to disappear from the landscape, 48 Rungalin village, 26, 184, 188; derivation of name, 63 Säntis mountain, tragedy on, 29 Sagliain, glacier, 150 St. Anne, church, 37, 55, 172 St. Anton, village, 180 St. Gallenkirch, village, 9 St. Gebhard, chapel, 200 St. Gerold, hamlet and convent, 91-93; its vineyard, 197 St. Martin, church, 186; its Gothic ornaments, 214 St. Nicholas, church, 48, 190 St. Peter, convent, 152 Salamander, alpine, 182; maculated, 184 Sarotla alp, 23, 24 Satteins, village, 95 Scesaplana, mountain, 24, 29, 62, 74, 244; its summit, 158 Scesa-tobel, torrent, 59, 127, 148, 181 Schattenburg, castle-ruin, 72 Schlee, Johann Georg, his Relation of Rhetia, 76; on wild beasts, 187, 188 Schlehen. See Schlee. Schlins, village, 169; its pleasanttavern, 172, 235 Schlosstobel, torrent, 63, 72 Schmalz, a desirable condiment, 11, 114 Schmatzen, a noise forbidden at dinner, 92-93 Schnapps (spirits), varieties of, 33 Schnepfenstrich, tract of forest, 60 Schreiber, E., quoted, 184 Schubert, Fräulein, gets the sack, 215 Shelter-huts in mountains, degenerate into hotels, 24 Silberthal, valley, 34 Silvretta, glacier, 150 Sippins, dog, specializes in fleas and beer, 232 Sister of author, leads him astray, 63, 94, 237 Skittles played with skulls, 214 Sliding on fir-branches, its risks, 5-6 Solidarity, a catchword, 175-176; its grotesque results, 231 Som, schoolmaster, 215, 216 Sonnenberg, castle-ruin, 72, 186 Sonntag, village, 136 Sporting pictures, their uses, 4, 176 Spuller lake, 139, 144 Squirrel, with malformed teeth, 10; death of a tame, 28; declining in numbers, 238 Statuette of bronze, a remarkable, 152 Stelvio pass, crossing on high bicycles, 159 Steub, Ludwig, 101; quoted, 153 Storrbach, torrent, 72 Strassburger (now Mannheimer) hut, 24, 157, 158 Strassenhaus, railway-station, 127 Sulzfluh, mountain, 29 Sulz-Röthis, village, 197 Suser, consequences of drinking, 235 Switzerland, projected annexation to, 33 Tabalada, stream, 62, 224 Tattermandl, derivation of name, 184. See Quadertatsch. Tavern, our residence, its food and comforts, 3, 4, 11, 12, 107, 108; its proprietors, 31-34; prices at, 112 Theocritus, seldom caught napping, 85 Thirty Years’ War, 55, 77 Thüringen, village, 134, 184; derivation of name, 169 Thüringerberg, village, 94, 95, 190 Tiberius, Emperor, 62, 152 Tiefis, village, 33, 40, 49, 71, 103; visit to its tavern, 42; another visit, 130; another, 190; another, 241; destroyed by fire, 130 Tilisuna lake, 63 Tourists, their climbing feats, 23-24, 157, 159 Townbred persons, often incomplete, 83-86 Trout, how to catch, 224 Tschallenga, mountain, 55, 83 Tschudi, F. von, 188 Tschusi, R. von, 129 Tuckwell, Rev. W., 85 Valbona, mountain, 62 Val d’Aosta, 39 Valduna, lunatic asylum, 38; interviews at, 190-196 Valentschina (Walserthal), 76 Vallis Drusiana (Walgau), derivation of name, 62, 152, 153 Valtellina, 39 Valuta, its workings, 113 Vandans, village, 159 Verdigris, dining off, 47 Vermunt, Maz, 63 Village, statistics of our, 13 Vineyards, no longer planted, 197 Violets, yellow, 143; red and white, 163 Vonbun, Dr. J. F., quoted, 139. Vorarlberg, province, 6, 53, 153; projected annexation to Switzerland, 33; sends students to Wittenberg, 169 Vorarlbergische Chronik, 132; quoted, 32 Walchner, H., 129 Walgau, central valley of province. See Vallis Drusiana. Walserthal, valley, 79, 91, 136, 244; famous for idiots, 37; when colonized, 53; dialect and costume, ibid. Wasserkälb (Gordius), 232 Watts, Dr. Isaac, quoted, 12 Weisses Kreuz, hotel, its manager worth making love to, 207 Widderstein, mountain, 245 Wildkirchle, rock-needle, 137, 138 Wine, qualities and prohibitive price of, 43, 109; decline in local production of, 196; wine-bibbing in olden days, 198 Wolf, the last, 187; why extinct in Alps, 188; wolf-stories, 214 Wolfart, Lord of Blumenegg, 80 Wood of the ——, a once awesome forest, 170, 238 Woodcock shooting, 60 Woodlands, administration of, 135, 136 Zalim alp, 24, 157 Zimba, mountain, 41, 138; first ascent of, 21-22; its victims, 23 Zimmerman, Dr., responsible for cataclysm, 7 “Zoologist,” referred to, 10 Zürich, derivation of name, 169 Zürs, alp, 33

FOOTNOTES: