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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ly in the spring. Themittelalpen lands are the next in height,and generally mark the limits of cattlegrazing, but the hochalpen meadows areinhabited with flocks as high as ninethousand feet above the sea. It is inNeufchatel, Bern, and the Grisons thatthe hochalpen flocks most abound. Of 100 GREAT RACES OF MANKLWD. the forest, a considerable portion stillbelongs to the government, but thelarger part has gone toprivate ownership. Twofacts have dependence, inthe evolution of Swiss life,upon the prev-alence of the forest. The first, woodcarving, is one of the most ancient arts,but now of less importance. The prin- Relation ofSwiss forest tobuilding andwood carving. twelve hundred and two men and a hun-dred and five women engaged in handcarving of the original style. The second circumstance is vSwissbuilding. The houses were originallyaltogether of wood, and Characteristicswere of two kmds, a block- ofthe Swiss ar-11,-1 chitecture. house and a posthouse. The blockhouse is in structure much
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SWISS SHEPHERD WriH FLOCK (NEAR GLACIER OF MORTERATSCH). cipal seat of the modern industry is inthe Bernese Oberland, where the oldwoodcutting of the Swiss fathers is re-peated by their descendants, who havebecome artistic in this regard by hered-itary discipline. vSince 1881 attemptshave been made to revive the industry,and in the year just named there were like an American loghouse, being builtby framework and the superposition oflogs. The posthouse, as the name im-plies, is a structure of which the post isthe first principle, and then a frame-work, the intermediate parts beingclosed up with boards. So long asSwitzerland continued to be limitless in THE SWISS.—INDUSTRIAL LIFE. 101 its supply of forest trees, the old types ofbuilding were maintained, but more re-cently a third style has been introduced,much like the posthouse already de-scribed, except that for the intermediateparts of the wall bricks and stone areused. Such a structure is known as rie-gelhaus, and it is most frequ

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