Download or read book Swiss Life in Town and Country (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred Thomas Story and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Swiss Life in Town and Country Romans remained for over three hundred years in the country, and doubtless left their permanent mark upon the population of the land, as well as upon its arts and customs. They at least intro duced the vine, and its cultivation has ever since been one of the leading features of Swiss industry. As the Empire began to totter to its fall, Helvetia was overrun by hordes of Alemanni and Burgun dians, who thenceforward became the permanent occupiers of the land. The former appear to have been the sturdier and fiercer people, and probably it was they who gave those tougher and more enduring elements to the character which we as sociate with the Swiss to the present time. They preserved their ancient tongue, while the Burgun dians, a milder race, adopted the language of the conquered people. Hence it arose that we have to-day the two broadly defined limits of the Ger man and the French-speaking cantons, or dis tricts, for the dividing line does not always coincide with cantonal boundaries. 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.