[24]. Of course this was written long before the events of 1820. In the clamours for the Charte, that feeling seemed to be excited, or at least such clamours would tend to excite it, but the ministers of the day did all they could to stifle it.
[25]. 1,422 toises, equal to 9,080 English feet above the sea. See Nouvel Itinéraire des Vallées autour du Mont Blanc, par J. P. Picté, a useful little manual.
[26]. This was much improved in 1826.
[27]. The model made by General Pfyffer at Lucern may perhaps be an exception. One may see, at the first glance, from the finely varied characters of the different mountains, how carefully nature has been studied.
[28]. The batz is in value equal to about three halfpence, but it varies in the different cantons.
[29]. It is, probably, this smaller chesnut which Mr. Rose has taken for horse-chesnuts, which assuredly do not enter into the common food of the Italians; indeed the tree is of rare occurrence.
[30]. These measures are reduced from some in French feet; those in Braccia agree so little with them, that I thought it better to give both. The Milanese Braccio is about 23½ English inches.
[31]. The word order, as here used, includes the column with its entablature, and the pedestal, if there is one; all which goes to make up one of the Grecian orders of architecture.
[32]. The precinction is a broad step, leaving a passage behind the seated spectators.
[33]. He reckons, I suppose, the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth.