[Footnote Q:  Crosses commemorative of the deaths of travellers by the fall of snow and other accidents very common along this dreadful road.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote R:  The houses in the more retired Swiss valleys are all built of wood.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote S:  See Burns’s ‘Postscript’ to his ‘Cry and Prayer’: 

  And when he fa’s,
His latest draught o’ breathin’ leaves him
  In faint huzzas.

Ed.]

[Footnote T:  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’.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote U:  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.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote V:  This picture is from the middle region of the Alps.—­W.  W. 1815. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen.—­W.  W. 1836.]

[Footnote W:  Sugh, a Scotch word expressive of the sound of the wind through the trees.—­W.  W. 1793.

It may be as well to add that, in this Scotch word, the “gh” is pronounced; so that, as used colloquially, the word could never rhyme with “blue.”—­Ed.]

[Footnote X:  See Smollett’s ‘Ode to Leven Water’ in ‘Humphry Clinker’, and compare ‘The Italian Itinerant and the Swiss Goatherd’, in “Memorials of a Tour on the Continent” in 1820, part ii. 1.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Y:  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.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote Z:  As Schreck-Horn, the pike of terror.  Wetter-Horn, the pike of storms, etc., etc.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote Aa:  The effect of the famous air called in French Ranz des Vaches upon the Swiss troops.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[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.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote Cc:  Compare the Stanzas ’Composed in one of the Catholic Cantons’, in the “Memorials of a Tour on the Continent” (1820), which refer to Einsiedlen.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Dd:  Rude fountains built and covered with sheds for the accommodation of the pilgrims, in their ascent of the mountain.—­W.  W. 1793.]

[Footnote Ee:  Compare Coleridge’s ’Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni’: