Brünig, a Swiss pass (3396 feet), forming the shortest and easiest route between the 'Forest Cantons' and the Bernese Oberland. A road was formed in 1857-62, and in 1888 a Brünig branch of the Berne-Lucerne Railway was opened.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 499
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