Pilatus
MOUNT, an isolated mountain at the W. end of the Lake of Lucerne, rising opposite the Rigi. The lower half is clothed with wood and meadow, the upper portion is a mass of bare and jagged peaks, rising in the Tomlishorn to 6,998 feet. Below the summit lies Lake Pilatus. Since 1889 there has been a tooth-and-rack railway from Alpnach to the top, whence there is a splendid view of the Bernese Alps.
In 1891 a steel tower was undertaken, to be 300 feet in diameter at its base and 840 feet high, and so pierce any enveloping cloud. important food fish, found on the coast