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caught in the streams of the Alps in a very 

 original manner. The implements are a heavy 

 knife or bill, and a lantern of curious construc- 

 tion. It consists of* a hollow globe of horn, to 

 v/hich is affixed a steel tube three feet long, and 

 an inch and a half in diameter. The junction of 

 the tube and the globe being hermetically sealed. 



the oiled wick within the latter, after having been 

 lighted, receives air only from the top of the tube. 

 The mountaineer, thus furnished, wades into the 

 torrents that brawl through the valleys, hy nighty 

 until the water reaches his middle. With his 

 left hand he plunges the globe of the lantern 

 towards the bottom to nearly the full length of 



