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Note 5. Page 14. line 1.

The Jung-frau and the Rhine, &c.

This Sonnet belongs to another publication, but from its fitness for this place is inserted here also.

"Voilà un énfer d'eau," cried out a German Friend of Ramond, falling on his knees on the scaffold in front of this Waterfall. See Ramond's Translation of Coxe.

Note 6. Page 15. line 11.

We reached a votive Stone that bears
The name of Aloys Reding.

Aloys Reding, it will be remembered, was Captain-General of the Swiss forces, which with a courage and perseverance worthy of the cause, opposed the flagitious, and too successful, attempt of Buonaparte to subjugate their country.

Note 7. Page 17. line 1.

On approaching the Staub-bach.

"The Staub-bach" is a narrow Stream, which, after a long course on the heights, comes to a sharp edge of a somewhat overhanging precipice, overleaps it with a