152 PALL OP MOUNT ROSENBERa. 



The good Hermit was fortunately at Ensiddlen. The 

 long road of the Lake is broken in a thousand places. 



" Succours have been sent with the greatest prompti* 

 Farther parti- tude. ^'iX hundred workmen from Zug and Schwitz have 

 cular«. gQj^g ^Q ^l^Q banks of the Lake of Lauwertz, particularly 



the mouth of the Seven, This small river was so obstruct- 

 ed by ruins of all descriptions, wood, trees, houses, &c. 

 that, without prompt assistance, the safety of all the houses 

 below Schwitz to Brunncn, would have been menaced. 



" One man had the good fortune to withdraw in time 

 under ground, with his servant and a child, which he 

 held in his arms. In one house near Arth is still living, 

 a poor man, who had both his thighs broken. During 

 the search which has already been made, twenty persons 

 were discovered dead at the entrance of the village of 

 Goldau, men, women, and children, some having their 

 arms, others their heads, others their legs separated from 

 their bodies, and the bodies of ^ome cut in half. We 

 have coasted along the foot of Riga, where the greatest 

 part of those who survived this catastrophe took refuge: 

 alas ! not more than thirty. An old man whom we met, 

 said to us, " I had sons, daughters, and a great number 

 of grand children. I had a wife and other relations. I 

 alone remain." A little girl said, " I have no longer 

 father or mother, brothers or sisters." A woman had lost 

 her mother, husband, brothers, sisters, and five children. 



" The villages of Goldau and Rothen, consisting of 

 115 houses, that of Rusingen, of 126, and that of IIuz- 

 Joch, have totally disappeared. Of Lauwertz, which lost 

 25 houses, there remains ten buildings, all much damaged. 

 Stein has lost two houses and several stables, which were 

 Sn great numbers in all these villages, 



" P. S. Twenty years since, General Psyffer predicted 

 this catastrophe, from the knowledge which he had of 

 the mountain. A professor of Schwitz said, that 

 above Spietzfluc was'a sea of water, whicli had under- 

 mined the rock for several years, and that below there 

 ' was a cavern of great depth, where the waters were en- 



gulphed. The quantity of water which has fallen during 

 the preceding years, has hastened this catastrqphe, and 

 the rains of some weeks past have decided." 



