A QUEER STORY FROM SWITZERLAND.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 63, 19 December 1871, Page 3

A QUEER STORY FROM SWITZERLAND.

The following paragraph appeared in the editorial columns of the London Daily XeH'S : People aa’lio go to Switzerland should he careful about bathing in the Lake of Walleustndt. We are informed that “ a number of persons,” excursionists probably, avlio ventured to SAvira in this Avater in the course of the season, never came out of it, either dead or alive, and the matter has at last been made the subject of a serious investigation. As tending towards a solution of the mystery, Ave are told that seveial fishes of an enormous size have recently been observed gamboling in the loch, “ but no one can at present give any accurate description of these monsters of the deep.” It is to he hoped that the relatives of the unfortunate individuals avlio have disappeared in the Lake of Wallenstadt Avill insist on a careful and deliberate inquiry into the habit of the neAV kind of shark that has evidently developed the most uncomfortable propensities in Switzerland. Our coasts and rivers are at any rate free from fish addicted to droAvning bathers; hut from a scientific point of A-iew it Avould be.interesting to learn more of the terrible creatures, for an account of which Ave are indebted to that excellent holiday newspaper, the Swiss Times.