Beautiful Switzerland
VILLARS
AND ITS ENVIRONS
Painted and Described by
G. FLEMWELL
Author of “Lucerne” “Chamonix” “Lausanne”
“Alpine Flowers and Gardens” &c.
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
1914
Beautiful Switzerland
In this series have already appeared:
Painted and Described by
G. FLEMWELL
Other volumes in preparation
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Villars: The Grand and the Petit Muveran | Frontispiece |
St. Maurice: The Château and the Rock of Dailly | 8 |
Bex: The Croix de Javernaz and the Dent de Morcles | 14 |
Les Plans: Avalanche falling from the Grand Muveran | 20 |
Leysin, seen from Les Ecovets | 24 |
The Chamossaire, seen from Villars | 30 |
In the Village of Chesières | 36 |
Mont Blanc and the Aiguille Verte, from Bretaye | 40 |
The Dent du Midi, from Villars | 46 |
Villars: The Mountains of Savoy | 50 |
Villars: A Peep of the Dent de Morcles | 54 |
Champéry: The Dent du Midi | 60 |
There is no more interesting district in the Rhonevalley, perhaps even in the whole of Switzerland,than that which lies around the north-western entranceto the upper and main portion of the Cantonof Valais—that i