This online letter to Livy written from Leukerbad may be of interest — https://www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL01589.xml;query=Leukerbad;searchAll=;sectionType1=;sectionType2=;sectionType3=;sectionType4=;sectionType5=;style=letter;brand=mtp#1 Barb On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Interesting as Twain, at least in "A Tramp Abroad" was unable to > distinguish between the two towns. I can't check his journal or notebooks, > however. /The town in the valley is called Leuk or Leukerbad. We pointed > our course toward it, down a verdant slope which was adorned with fringed > gentians and other flowers, and presently entered the narrow alleys of the > outskirts and waded toward the middle of the town through liquid > "fertilizer." They ought to either pave that village or organize a ferry./ > > On 3/22/21 7:36 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote: > >> I checked the passage in Rodney’s MARK TWAIN OVERSEAS, p. 106. Rodney >> does >> not mention Leukerbad. >> >> Barb >> >> On Monday, March 22, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> I have recently relocated my twainsgeography site to Amazon's cloud server >>> and am combing through my site for bothersome details. For those >>> interested in such minutia, Fears' Day by Day contains this passage: >>> >>> "The pair set off with an old guide and climbed on foot up through the >>> pass, coming down a precipitous trail to the village of*Leuk***(a short >>> distance from*Leukerbad*)[Rodney 106]." >>> >>> Fears apparently got this from Robert Rodney's "Mark Twain Overseas". >>> >>> The order of villages is actually reversed. Leukerbad is the village >>> with >>> the baths and is found at the base of Gemmi Pass. Leuk is the town to >>> the >>> south of Leukerbad. >>> >>> Just thought I'd mention it... http://twainsgeography.com/con >>> tent/kandersteg-leukerbad >>> >>>