glarner

Updated: May 21, 2025

The Italian valleys groaned beneath the yoke of the original cantons, particularly under that of Uri, the seven provincial governments in Unterwallis under that of Oberwallis, the countship of Werdenberg under that of the Glarner, the Valtelline under that of the Grisons. The princely abbot of St. Gall was unlimited sovereign over his territory.

Wolfgang Menzel - Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4

Gall to Zurich cheered me up wonderfully, and when I drove down from Oberstrass into Zurich that evening, the last day in May, at six o'clock, and saw for the first time the Glarner Alps that encircle the lake gleaming in the sunset, I at once resolved, though without being fully conscious of it, to avoid everything that could prevent my settling here.

Richard Wagner - My Life — Volume 1

This example, which was first called the Glarner Double Fold by Escher and Heim, is now universally called a nearly flat-lying "thrust fault," in accordance with the explanations since adopted of similar phenomena elsewhere.

George McCready Price - Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation