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days butterflies abound in large numbers. The Hotel des 

 Alpes is a small roadside inn, and offers really cleanly, good 

 sleeping accommodation, excellent, wholesome, honest food, 

 and the greatest civility in attendance; I often stay there 

 with my family. A diligence runs daily from Aigle through 

 Sepey, on to Chateau D'Oex and Rossinieres, so there is no 

 difficulty about forwarding luggage by this route ; in fact 

 throughout Switzerland you can forward your luggage with 

 safety and at a cheap rate by the post, trusting to your 

 knapsack en route. 



III. The following week's expedition may very well be 

 omitted if time does not permit of its being carried out. But 

 some valuable Erehias may be secured in the neighbourhood 

 of Rossinieres, and the route from Sepey is one of the most 

 beautiful in this part of Switzerland. To go to Rossinieres 

 your luggage should be sent by the Chateau D'Oex diligence 

 to Les Moulins, whilst you walk over the Coraballaz down 

 to Rossinieres from Sepey in about three hours and a half, 

 and on arrival send for your luggage. At Rossinieres the 

 Grand Chalet, the largest chalet in Switzerland, affords 

 most excellent food and accommodation {pension six francs). 

 It would be well to write beforehand to Madame Raymond, 

 the landlady, as the Pension is much frequented by English, 

 and often full. The return journey may be made on foot 

 over the Col de Jaman, in five to six hours, down upon 

 Montreux (a splendid walk), in time to take the last train 

 to Sion or Sierre. 



IV. This route may also be omitted, the next (No. V.) 

 being the most important. Take the train at Montreux or 

 Aigle for Sion : if arriving late in the day stop at Sion, and 

 go on the next day up the Val d'Herens to Evolena; sleep 

 thei'e, and on the following day to Arolla. Up this valley 

 Parnassius Mnemosyne and many other rarities, as Chionohas 

 Aello, are taken. The valley is very different in scenery from 

 most of the other lateral valleys of the Rhone, and well worth 

 a visit. A whole day would be well spent at Arolla, and by 

 a good walker the return journey may be accomplished in 

 one day easily enough to save the last train from Sion on to 

 Sierre. 



V. Taking the last train from Montreux, Aigle, or Sion 

 (as the case may be) you arrive at Sierre in time for the 



