[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 quæque 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 Chàmouny, 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 Chàmouny that Mont Blanc is visible.] [Footnote Ff: It is scarce necessary to observe that these lines were written before the emancipation of Savoy.] [Footnote Gg: A vast extent of marsh so called near the lake of Neuf-chatel.] [Footnote Hh: This, as may be supposed, was written before France became the seat of war.] [Footnote Ii: An insect so called, which emits a short, melancholy cry, heard, at the close of the summer evenings, on the banks of the Loire.]