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WALENSEE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 258 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WALENSEE , also called the See also:

LAKE OF WALENSTADT, a Swiss lake between the basins of the See also:Rhine and the See also:Linth (Limmat), lying S.E. of the Lake of See also:Zurich. It is formed by the Seez See also:river (descending from the Weisstannen glen), which once certainly sent its See also: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 See also:canal (completed in 1811) into the lake, from which it soon again issues in See also:order, by means of the Linth canal (completed in 1816), to flow into the Lake of Zurich. The Walensee has an See also:area of 9 sq. m., is about 9 m. in length, 14 m. wide and 495 ft. deep, while its See also:surface is 1388 ft. above See also:sea-level. It forms See also:part of the See also:Canton of St See also:Gall, See also:save ri sq. m. towards its See also:west end, which are in that of See also:Glarus. It lies in a deep See also:trench between two comparatively lofty ranges of mountains, so that its scenery is more gloomy than is usual with Swiss lakes. On the See also:north See also:shore there is but a single See also:village of any See also: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 See also:south See also:side the hills rise less steeply from the shore (on which are Muhlehorn and Murg) towards the See also:fine See also: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 See also:line no steamers ply on the lake. (W. A.

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