summits of mountains, the waters of the sea, the beginning and the courses of rivers, the immensity of the ocean, but they neglect themselves.'

"I take God and my brother to witness that what I say is true! I was struck with the singularity of an accident, the application of which it was so easy for me to make.

"In the midst of contemplation I had got, without perceiving, to the bottom of the mountain with the same safety, though with less fatigue, than I went up. A fine clear moon favoured our return. While they were preparing our supper, I shut myself up in a corner of the house to give you this account, and the reflections it produced in my mind. You are my father, and I hide nothing from you. I wish I was always able to tell you not only what I do but what I think. Pray to God that my thoughts, now, alas! vain and wandering, may be immovably fixed on the only true and solid good!"

We will now leave mountain and glaciers for a while, and proceed on our route to Martigny, through the interesting hamlet of Lavey, which will furnish us materials for another chapter.

LAVEY.

Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms,
And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms;
And as a child, when scaring sounds molest,
Clings close and closer to the mother's breast;
So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar
But bind him to his native mountains more.
GOLDSMITH.

NEAR the town of St. Maurice, on the road to Martigny, stands the small sequestered hamlet of Lavey. If the taste of the traveller lead him to enjoy the quiet and unobtrusive beauties of village scenery, he will not fail to recognize this spot with delight. An appearance of delicious calmness, of deeply harmonized repose, pervades this enchanting retreat, and is in admirable keeping with the tranquil hour of evening, and the modified beauty of the whole scenery around.

The habitations likewise bear an appearance so perfectly primitive that one might, with reason, believe their architecture had known no alteration since the time when houses were constructed with no other earthly view than that of shelter. Yet, although we entirely acquit the rustic architect of any variety in the design, a Swiss cottage is an exceedingly picturesque object. The heavy projecting roof, independent of all rule or order, but constructed solely as a defence from the weather; the staircases and communications to the interior, which are

Lur Ful Oct 28 1829 by Robert Jennings 62 Cheapride & Giraldon Bovinet Galleri Vivienn Paris

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