Extent of trade--Exports and imports--Railways--Education--Keller the poet--The Geneva Convention--International Postal Union--International Labour Congress--Switzerland as a political asylum--Franco-German War--Summary of population statistics. GENEALOGICAL TABLES 83, 84 INDEX 423 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE LAKE DWELLINGS, ZURICH LAKE, FROM A DESIGN BY DR. FERDINAND KELLER _Frontispiece_ MAP, SHOWING LAKE SETTLEMENTS AROUND ZURICH LAKE, BY MR. HEIERLI 2 (1) DECORATION ON SWORD HILT; (2 AND 3), STONE CELTS FOUND IN SWISS LAKE DWELLINGS (COPIED BY PERMISSION FROM "HARPER'S MAGAZINE") 4 (1) VESSEL; (2) SPECIMENS OF WOVEN FABRICS FOUND IN SWISS LAKE DWELLINGS (COPIED BY PERMISSION FROM "HARPER'S MAGAZINE") 7 SPECIMENS OF POTTERY FOUND IN SWISS LAKE DWELLINGS (COPIED BY PERMISSION FROM "HARPER'S MAGAZINE") 10 JOHANNISSTEIN, WITH RUINS OF CASTLE OF "HOHENRHÆTIA," NEAR THUSIS, GRAUBÜNDEN 16 HOUSE (FORMERLY CHAPEL) IN ROMAUNSH STYLE, AT SCHULS, LOWER ENGADINE, GRAUBÜNDEN 27 SILVER COIN, VERCINGETORIX (DR. IMHOOF, WINTERTHUR) 29 GOLD COIN, VESPASIAN [VESPASIANUS IMPERATOR-AETERNITAS] (DR. IMHOOF) 34 GOLD COIN OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY [ST. FELIX, ST. REGULA-SANCTUS CAROLUS] (DR. IMHOOF) 42 THE EIGER 52 GREAT MINSTER AND WASSERKIRCHE, ZURICH (APPENZELLER, ZURICH) 67 FURKA PASS 79 CATHEDRAL (EXTERIOR), LAUSANNE 92 CHÂTEAU DE VUFFLENS, VAUD (FOURTEENTH CENTURY) 102 BRONZE FIGURES FROM MAXIMILIAN MONUMENT, INNSBRUCK (ARTHUR OF THE ROUND TABLE, BRITAIN; THEODOBERT, DUKE OF BURGUNDY; ERNEST, DUKE OF AUSTRIA; THEODORIC, KING OF THE OSTROGOTHS) 106 THE OLD HABSBURG CASTLE, CANTON AARGAU 112 THALER OF THE THREE CANTONS (URI, SCHWYZ, AND UNTERWALDEN) 120 MAP OF OLD SWITZERLAND 138 UPPER FALL OF THE REICHENBACH (MEYRINGEN) 160 PORCH OF BERN MINSTER, WITH STATUE OF RUDOLF VON ERLACH 165 WINKELRIED'S MONUMENT, STANZ 174