[9] They are pronounced as if spelled Gooten arbend.
[10] Flowers dry faster and better between sheets of blotting paper than between those of common printing paper, such as is used for books; for the surface of this latter is covered with a sort of sizing used in the manufacture of it, and which prevents the moisture of the plant from entering into the paper.
[12] It may seem strange that streams of ice, hundreds of feet thick and solid to the bottom, can flow; but such is the fact, as will appear more fully in the next chapter.
[13] See frontispiece.
[14] Any loose rock of large size detached from its native ledge or mountain is called a bowlder.
[15] Pronounced shallay.
[16] The Swiss always stand up in rowing, and push the oar. Thus they look the way they are going.