undertook another journey into Switzerland. It was then at least forty years since he had first seen the Alps (the source of the "Arveron," in Mr. Fawkes' collection, which could not have been painted till he had seen the thing itself, bears date 1800), and the direction of his journey in 1840 marks his fond memory of that earliest one; for, if we look over the Swiss studies and drawings executed in his first period, we shall be struck with his fondness for the pass of the St. Gothard; the most elaborate drawing in the Farnley collection is one of the Lake of Lucerne from Fluelen; and, counting the "Liber Studiorum" subjects, there are, to my knowledge, six compositions taken at the same period from the pass of St. Gothard, and, probably, several others are in existence. The valleys of Sallenche, and Chamouni, and Lake of Geneva, are the only other Swiss scenes which seem to have made very profound impressions on him.
He returned in 1841 to Lucerne; walked up Mont Pilate on foot, crossed the St Gothard, and returned by Lausanne and Geneva. He made a large number of col-