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 | | The snow-clad Alps of course have the heaviest rain- or snow-fall in Switzerland, this being estimated at 89.7 in. |
 | | Switzerland is that over the Umbrail Pass (8242 ft.), opened in i9o1, and leading from the Swiss upper MUnster valley to close to the Stelvio. |
 | | In 1905 there were in Switzerland 1924 hotels (of which 402 were in Bern and 358 in the Grisons) specially built for the accommodation of foreign visitors, containing 124,068 beds, and employing 33,480 servants (the numbers for 1894 and 1880 are 1693 and 1002, 88,634 and 58,137, and 23,997 and 16,022 respectively). |
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