[Footnote S:  The people of this Canton are supposed to be of a more melancholy disposition than the other inhabitants of the Alps:  this, if true, may proceed from their living more secluded.]

[Footnote T:  These summer hamlets are most probably (as I have seen observed by a critic in the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’) what Virgil alludes to in the expression “Castella in tumulis.”]

[Footnote U:  Sugh, a Scotch word expressive of the sound of the wind through the trees.]

[Footnote V:  This wind, which announces the spring to the Swiss, is called in their language Foen; and is according to M. Raymond the Syroco of the Italians.]

[Footnote W:  This tradition of the golden age of the Alps, as M. Raymond observes, is highly interesting, interesting not less to the philosopher than to the poet.  Here I cannot help remarking, that the superstitions of the Alps appear to be far from possessing that poetical character which so eminently distinguishes those of Scotland and the other mountainous northern countries.  The Devil with his horns, etc., seems to be in their idea, the principal agent that brings about the sublime natural revolutions that take place daily before their eyes.]

[Footnote X:  Alluding to several battles which the Swiss in very small numbers have gained over their oppressors the house of Austria; and in particular, to one fought at Naeffels near Glarus, where three hundred and thirty men defeated an army of between fifteen and twenty thousand Austrians.  Scattered over the valley are to be found eleven stones, with this inscription, 1388, the year the battle was fought, marking out as I was told upon the spot, the several places where the Austrians attempting to make a stand were repulsed anew.]

[Footnote Y:  As Schreck-Horn, the pike of terror.  Wetter-Horn, the pike of storms, etc. etc.]

[Footnote Z:  The effect of the famous air called in French Ranz des Vaches upon the Swiss troops removed from their native country is well known, as also the injunction of not playing it on pain of death, before the regiments of that nation, in the service of France and Holland.]

[Footnote Aa:  Optima quaeque dies, etc.]

[Footnote Bb:  This shrine is resorted to, from a hope of relief, by multitudes, from every corner of the Catholick world, labouring under mental or bodily afflictions.]

[Footnote Cc:  Rude fountains built and covered with sheds for the accommodation of the pilgrims, in their ascent of the mountain.  Under these sheds the sentimental traveller and the philosopher may find interesting sources of meditation.]

[Footnote Dd:  This word is pronounced upon the spot Chamouny, I have taken the liberty of reading it long thinking it more musical.]

[Footnote Ee:  It is only from the higher part of the valley of Chamouny that Mont Blanc is visible.]

[Footnote Ff:  It is scarce necessary to observe that these lines were written before the emancipation of Savoy.]