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basin, which nature has formed for it in averdant meadow below.

We stopped at the picturesque village ofSatanche for the night. Early the next daywe provided ourselves with mules andguides, and ascending for the space of seve-ral hours arrived at the little romantic lakeof Chede , and soon afterwards at the hamlet;having on our left, woods of wild walnut,whose broad foliage sheltered us from aburning sun, and on the right, the riverArve , whose muddy stream, flowing fromthe snows and glaciers and joined by amultitude of little cascades, roared overits rocky bed in the dark gulph below. Insome spots vineyards formed a striking con-trast with the dazzling snows and blackpines with which the mountains behindwere covered.

We again descended towards the torrentthrough a narrow path, by the side of whichwas the monument to some unfortunate vic-tim, who had recently perished in an ava-

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