[Footnote F:  Name of one of the vallies of the Chartreuse.]

[Footnote G:  If any of my readers should ever visit the Lake of Como, I recommend it to him to take a stroll along this charming little pathway:  he must chuse the evening, as it is on the western side of the Lake.  We pursued it from the foot of the water to it’s head:  it is once interrupted by a ferry.]

[Footnote H: 

  Solo, e pensoso i piu deserti campi
  Vo misurando a passi tardi, e lenti. 
’Petrarch’.]

[Footnote I:  The river along whose banks you descend in crossing the Alps by the Semplon pass.  From the striking contrast of it’s features, this pass I should imagine to be the most interesting among the Alps.]

[Footnote J:  Most of the bridges among the Alps are of wood and covered:  these bridges have a heavy appearance, and rather injure the effect of the scenery in some places.]

[Footnote K: 

  “Red came the river down, and loud, and oft
  The angry Spirit of the water shriek’d.”

HOME’S ’Douglas’.]

[Footnote L:  The Catholic religion prevails here, these cells are, as is well known, very common in the Catholic countries, planted, like the Roman tombs, along the road side.]

[Footnote M:  Crosses commemorative of the deaths of travellers by the fall of snow and other accidents very common along this dreadful road.]

[Footnote N:  The houses in the more retired Swiss valleys are all built of wood.]

[Footnote O:  I had once given to these sketches the title of Picturesque; but the Alps are insulted in applying to them that term.  Whoever, in attempting to describe their sublime features, should confine himself to the cold rules of painting would give his reader but a very imperfect idea of those emotions which they have the irresistible power of communicating to the most impassive imaginations.  The fact is, that controuling influence, which distinguishes the Alps from all other scenery, is derived from images which disdain the pencil.  Had I wished to make a picture of this scene I had thrown much less light into it.  But I consulted nature and my feelings.  The ideas excited by the stormy sunset I am here describing owed their sublimity to that deluge of light, or rather of fire, in which nature had wrapped the immense forms around me; any intrusion of shade, by destroying the unity of the impression, had necessarily diminished its grandeur.]

[Footnote P:  Pike is a word very commonly used in the north of England, to signify a high mountain of the conic form, as Langdale pike, etc.]

[Footnote Q:  For most of the images in the next sixteen verses I am indebted to M. Raymond’s interesting observations annexed to his translation of Coxe’s ’Tour in Switzerland’.]

[Footnote R:  The rays of the sun drying the rocks frequently produce on their surface a dust so subtile and slippery, that the wretched chamois-chasers are obliged to bleed themselves in the legs and feet in order to secure a footing.]