LIFE OF P ARACELSUS CHAPTER I DR. WILHELM: VON HOHENHEIM W'hen Einsiedeln And its greon hills were all the world to us. TIlE valley of Einsiedeln stretches from the two 11 ythen mountains on the south to Etzel on the north. Up to the end of the eighth century this high valley was uninhabited. Its streams and brooks found their way through forests to the Lake of Zurich. These forests kne'w the wolf's howl and the vulture's screaln, but the voice of man was unheard beyond their fringe, where a few hovels here and there Inight be -found. The whole district was a wilderness and was feared. by the dwellers near the lake. The great snow-mountains which pass through the valley of Glanls, through Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden, bounded it on the south; it pushed its way northwards to the meadows by the lake; it reached Altmatt on the 'vest, and on the east it skirted the upper lake and the march. This wilderness belonged to the Dukes of Alemannia, and was ecclesiastTable of Contents CONTENTS;...

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