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Encyclopedia Britannica



WALENSEE

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 258 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WALENSEE , also called the LAKE OF WALENSTADT, a Swiss lake between the basins of the Rhine and the
Linth
  (Limmat), lying S.E. of the Lake of Zurich. It is formed by the Seez river (descending from the Weisstannen glen), which once certainly sent its waters to the Rhine, but now enters the lake at its eastern end. Near its western end the
Linth
  has been diverted through the Escher canal (completed in 1811) into the lake, from which it soon again issues in order, by means of the Linth canal (completed in 1816), to flow into the Lake of Zurich. The Walensee has an area of 9 sq. m., is about 9 m. in length, 14 m. wide and 495 ft. deep, while its surface is 1388 ft. above sea-level. It forms
part
  of the
Canton
  of St
Gall
 ,
save
  ri sq. m. towards its west end, which are in that of Glarus. It lies in a deep trench between two comparatively lofty ranges of mountains, so that its scenery is more gloomy than is usual with Swiss lakes. On the north shore there is but a single
village
  of any size (Quinten), while above it rise the cliffs of the seven-peaked range of the Kurfursten (7576 ft.), at the west end of which the
village
  of Amden nestles in a hollow high above the lake. On the
south
  side the hills rise less steeply from the shore (on which are Muhlehorn and Murg) towards the fine
terrace
  of the Kerenzenberg, on which are the frequented summer resorts of Obstalden and Filzbach, backed on the
south
  by the singularly imposing crags of the Murtschenstock (8012 ft.). The small towns of Weesen and Walenstadt are situated respectively at the western and the eastern extremities of the lake, a railway along the south shore of which connects them with each other (11 m.). Since the construction of this line no steamers ply on the lake. (W. A. B. C.)


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