Excerpt from TyrolIN the following pages I have attempted to do for the reader with the pen what Mr. Harrison Compton has so ably accomplished with the brush - that is, to bring a bird's-eye View of Tyrol and its charms before him. He will have to do without first impressions, and there is about it none of the freshness of the new comer's aperou of a country for as I am an old resident in the country, and a generation has passed since, in the callow years of youth, I published my first essay, Tyrol and the Tyrolese, it will be soon my turn to pen last impressions. Goddings with it Primitive People and Sport in the Alps filled in the interval, the one giving an account of the habits and customs of the Tyrolese, the other describing chamois and stag shoot ing in the Austrian mountains. A fourth book on the.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.