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Alpine sketches, comprised in a short tour through parts of Holland, Flanders, France, Savoy, Switzerland and Germany, during the summer of 1814 / by a member of the University of Oxford [d.i.: George Windham Bridges]
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APPENDIX.

“ Mes fibres je ne pourrai voir dire que“ peu de mots; c'est d’une voix mouranteu que je vais occupe votre attention; mes“ maux augmentent de jour en jour; la“ mort pese sur ma poitrine brisee: ces“ paroles, je le sens, seront les dernieres“ que je vous adresserai. Ecoutez les,“ comme si elles sortoient de mon tom-“ beau,” &c. &c.

Appendix, 46 .

Tiie poet Glarian composed these linesupon viewing this majestic Fall, and thetroubled waters above it.

Quam propius liquidi facies nitidissima RheniAlluit: bic rapidus refluenti in gurgite vortexCernitur, Euripum referens, Scyllacque voracisLatratus, hie unda alti de vertice montisLapsa ruit praiceps, sterilemque eructat arenamIn circum, sursum que volans portendere nubem,

Aut nebula speciem, et ccelum pulsasse videtur.