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third day we arrived at Bryg, situated in the valley 
at the foot of the mountains, and near the banks of 
the Rhone. We were taught to expect that car- 
riages might be had here, but we were again ob- 
liged to set out on horseback. This day produced 
nothing in addition to my collection, except a few 
insects. The road lay chiefly along the banks of 
the Rhone, whose waters were considerably swelled 
with the rains; so that we wenta little out of our 
way through the fields, and did not cross the river 
till near eleven o'clock at night, bya wooden bridge 
just by the city of Syon, where we slept, and were 
well accommodated. Quis tumidum guttur miratur 
in Alpibus ? is an old exclamation; yet notwith- 
standing, I could not but wonder at the immensity 
of the size, and the frequency of the complaint, 
of the goztres in this country: scarcely a woman 
above twenty years of age in the streets who had 
not more or less of this deformity, I would call it, 
though habit may probably have rendered it a beau- 
tiful protuberance. The men are by no means ex- 
empted from it, though in them it is not so com- 
mon; but they are subject to what may acknow- 
ledge probably a similar origin, viz. swellings of 
the parotid and submaxillary glands : those I par- 
ticularly noticed were on the right side. Solamen 
miseris socios habuisse doloris ; so common is it, 
that no one looks upon the people thus deformed 
with any sort of idle curiosity, nor are they anxious 
to prevent or diminish its growth when once it 
begins to make its appearance. What is the re- 
mote cause : 
