Travel in the Bernese Oberland

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thank everyone when I consider all that has been contributed to my work by patrons and friends. Yet, I rightly honor first the veteran of our Alpine painters and Alpine naturalists, Reverend Wyttenbach at the Holy Ghost Church in Bern, from whose wide reading and personal observation I was most kindly permitted to make frequent use through his generous instructions. Professor Meisner, twice my travel companion in the Oberland, has likewise enriched me in manifold ways. Professors Studer and Trechsel contributed most benevolently, particularly to the improvement of the maps. Senior Forester Kasthofer, excellently versed in the peculiarities of our Alpine land, granted me more than I could use if I did not wish to let the natural history parts of the work grow too large. From Mr. Siegmund v. Wagner, welcome notes and hints of all kinds came to me. Finally, the revered pastors in the Oberland valleys themselves, Pastor Immer in Unterseen, Lutz in Gsteig, Weber in Lauterbrunnen, Lehmann in Grindelwald, Käsermann in Meiringen, and Bullinger at Hasli im Grund, have supported my work most pleasingly with numerous, sometimes