CASTLE OF CHILLON.

Drawn by J. D. Harding, from a Sketch by W. Page.

"Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls;

A thousand feet in depth below

Its massy waters meet and flow;
Thus much the fathom-line was sent
From Chillon's snow-white battlement
Which round about the wave enthrals:
A double dungeon wall and wave
Have made and like a living grave."
Prisoner of Chillon.

"Went to Chillon, through scenery worthy of I know not whom; went over the Castle of Chillon."- "Went again as far as Chillon to revisit the little torrent from the hill behind it. Mem. The corporal who shewed the wonders. of Chillon was as drunk as Blucher, and (to my mind) as great a man; he was deaf also, and thinking every one else so, roared out the legends of the castle so fearfully that I got out of humour. However, we saw things from the gallows to the dungeons (the potence and the cachots), and returned to Clarens with more freedom than belonged to the fifteenth century."

Extract from Lord Byron's Journal.