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Zahringen-Kyburg turreted at each corner and since 1429 the
residence of the Bailiffs-
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Thence by cars, through a delightful country, thickly settled,
rolling lawns, with railway stations every two or three miles,
into the large depot at Berne 12 1/2 P.M.
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A half mile of omnibus ride, the last few rods through a narrow and
ill poorly cleaned street, took us to the Hotel Bellvue, where we
found good apartments on the 2nd (3rd) floor, finely overlooking the
river and valley below- After establishing our
respective beds and depositing our extra bundles we lock up, and
enter a carriage for a two hours drive- We found the streets
filled in every direction so that we were scarcely able to proceed.
It was the day for the weekly market. A kind of fair, where
hundreds of little covered stalls shelter
some animated smiling individual
surround by every variety of cheap
merchandise, and eatables-
past the Corn-hall, a large building
where until 1830 was kept a supply
of Corn in case of famine-
Near the Cornhall in the centre of
the street’s a public fountain with
four running streams ornamented
with a statue of the Ogre (Kindlifresser)
a comical figure representing an
ancient Teuton in the act of swallowing
a child while others protrude from [Cornhall- Ogre Fountain- ]
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