(6) The meadow of Grütli covers a little craggy platform, immediately above the Lake.
(7) Tæhnwind, the wind of the south-east, which blows with such impetuosity, particularly in some parts of the Canton of Uri, as frequently to lay the country waste before it.
(8) "The air of the Glacier was remarkably inspiring and elating from its freshness and rarity. On a sudden, I was surprised to feel my face fanned by a sultry current from the south, which passed away, and then came again, like a Sirocco. On mentioning it to the guide, he said it was not uncommon, and that these warm winds were particularly felt on the Glacier des Bossons, owing to its being opposite several indentures or breaks of the Alpine chain, which give a passage to the currents of air from Italy and the South."—Letters on a Tour in Switzerland.
(9) It is said that the Lynx is not unfrequently found in the wilder regions of the Alps.
(10) The Lammer-Geyer, the largest kind of Alpine Eagle.
(11) The eyes of Arnold Melchthal's father had been torn out, by command of the Austrian Bailiffs, as a punishment for some instance of contumacy on the part of his son.
(12) The Oberland. The solitudes of the Upper Alps are so called in some of the Swiss Cantons.
(13) The Lake of the Four Cantons is also sometimes called the Sea of the Forest-towns.
(14) Surennen Alps, a chain of high mountains between the Cantons of Uri and Unterwalden.
