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CHAPTER VII.

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The Alpine Birds.—The lammergeier.—Its appetite.—Cases of earningoff children.—The golden eagle.—Other birds of prey.—The raven.—Itsthievish habits. —Choughs.—Nutcrackers.—Other birds.—Game birds.—Water birds.—Fish.—Beptiles.—Frogs and toads.—Salamanders.—Lizards.Snakes.—Mollusca.—Lepidoptera.—Beetles, &c.—Fleas.—Glacier fleas. 190

CHAPTER VIII.

Alpine Botany.—Deciduous trees.—Coniferous trees.—Larch, Spruce ,Silver, and Scotch fir, Arolla.—Brushwood.—Dwarf pine.—Junipers.—Rho-dodendrons.—Fruit-bearing shrubs.—Alpine flowers.—Alpine ferns, mosses,and lichens.. ..... 20S

CHAPTER IX.

Agriculture.—Com.—Vegetables.—Hay, dangers of the wild-hay cutter.

—Vine.—Making wine.—Forests.—Wood-cutting.—Perils of that work.—Slide of Alpnacli.—Chalet life.—Bread.—The chalets.—The different kindsof chalets.—A Bernese farmer’s house.— Chfilet villages.—Cow and sheepchalets.—Nights in chalets.—Chalet des bergers de Provence.—The manage-ment of the cows, and of the dairy.—Cheese making.—Eanz des vaehes.—Sheep and shepherds.—Bergamesque sheep.— Goats.—St Bernard dogs. 227

CHAPTER X.

The Alpine Passes. —Mont Gcndvre.—Col du Lautaret.—Mont Cenis.

—Tunnel through the Alps.—Little St Bernard.—Simplon.—St Gotliard.

—The Bernardino and Spliigen.—The Maloya.—The Julier.—The Albula.—

The Bernina Pass.—Beschen-scheideck.—Toblach-plateau.—The Brenner.

—The Furka.—The Oberalp Joch.—The Stelvio.—The Ampezzo Pass.—Convent of the Great St Bernard.—Mule and foot paths.—Glacier passes.—

The Col Durand and the Trift Joch ....... 261

CHAPTER XI.

Alpine legends.—Dragons.—Various species.—A winter in a dragon’sden.—The dragon stone of Lucerne.—Legend of the Clariden Alps.—TheLost Valley.—Mont Pilatus.—Legend of Heiligenblut.—Witchcraft.—Thelunatics of Morzine. —Local customs.—Burials.—Crucifixes.—Amusements.Abbaye des Vignerons.—Welcome to the sun.—Antiquities.—Celtic.—Lake