SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER 
TO THE FIFTY-SIXTIL VOLUME or THE 
MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
No. 391.] 
TRAVELS, 
Comprising Observations made during a Residence in 
THE TARENTAISE, 
And various parte of the 
GRECIAN AND PENNINE ALPS, 
And in 
SWITZERLAND AND AUVERGNE, 
In the Years 
1820, 1821, and 1822. 
Illustrated by Coloured Engravings and Nume- 
rous Wood Cuts, from Original Drawings and 
Sections. ¢ 
By R. BAKEWELL, Esq. 
Two Volumes, Octavo. 
[Mr. Bakewell is of the class of philoso- 
phical travellers, superior alike in the 
objects of their researches and their in- 
formation. He has, moreover, rendéred 
his work acceptable by treating of a 
portion of Europe seldom visited, and on 
subjects, in parts often visited, beyond 
the scrutiny of less accomplished ob- 
servers.. His reputation as a minera- 
logist and geologist has been so well 
established in his native country, that 
curiosity was awakened at the first an- 
noancement of his Travels among the 
Alps. This expectation has not been 
disappointed, and the author has pro- 
dnced two volumes, replete not only 
with scientific information cn the con- 
struction and component materials of 
these’ regions, but with various anec- 
dotes and political discussions, which 
will recommend his performance to ge- 
neral attention, He has indeed suc- 
ceeded in giving so popular a character 
even to his mineralogy, that few per- 
sons will find it necessary to pass over 
those pages, while the bulk of his work 
is altogether in the most amusing style 
of modern travels.] ; 
SAVOY. 
CCORDING to its present limits, 
the duchy of Savoy is bounded on 
the north by the Lake of Geneva and 
the Rhone. It is separated on the east, 
from the Swiss canton of the Vallois, by 
a range of mountains, extending south 
from St. Gingoulph, near the upper end 
of the Lake of Geneva, to the Col de 
Ferret, in the central range of the Alps. 
This central range, from the Col de 
Ferret to Mont Cenis, forms the southern 
boundary, separating Savoy from Pied- 
mont. Sayoy is partly separated from 
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France by the Rhone, which forms the 
western boundary, soon after it issues 
from the Lake of Geneva, untilitreaches 
St. Genix, where it leaves the confines 
of the two countries, and enters France. 
From Genix the line of demarcation is 
carried along the river Guiers, and then 
on the south-western side of the moun- 
tains that bound the valley of the Mau- 
rienne, until it joins the central range of 
the Alps near Mont Cenis. 
ALPINE DISTRICTS. 
As modern writers on the continent, 
as well as ancient historians, use the 
Roman appeliations to designate certain 
parts of the Alps, it may be proper to 
state that the Romans, who made mi- 
litary roads to pass over these mountains 
into Gaul and Germany, denominated 
different. portions of this range from the 
people who inhabited the country near 
these roads, or from the heroes, by whom, 
according to the tradition, ‘the Alps had 
been first crossed, See Plin. Nat. Hist; 
lib. iii. cap. 23. 4 
The Ligurian, or Maritime Alps, and 
the Cottian Alps, separate France from 
Italy on the south-east. The ancient 
nation of the Ligurians inhabited the 
Italian side of the Alps. The Cottian 
Alps, so called-from Cottius, the friend 
of Augustus, extended to Mont Cenis, 
comprising also the lateral valleys that 
branch from that mountain. 
The Grecian Alps extended from the 
east of Mont Cenis to the Col de Bon 
Homme, beyond the little St. Bernard: 
Pliny says they were so called from 
Hercules, who first passed over them. 
The Pennine Alps, or Summee Alpes, 
comprised the mountains and valleys 
from the Col de Bon Homme to tiie 
Great St. Bernard, and eastward to the 
mountains of the Haut Vallois. On 
the Great St. Bernard, the inhabitants 
of the country are said to have adored 
the god Pen, under the form of a young 
man. The Romans afterwards cone 
verted this god into Jupiter Penninus. 
The word Pen, or Ben, was the name 
of a high mountain among many of the 
northern nations of Murope: thus we 
have, in England, Pennygent, Pendle- 
hill, Pengaen, &c.; and in Scotland, 
Len Lomond, Ben Nevis, &e. &e. 
The Lepontine Alps extended from 
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