II Z Fatal Accident which happened to 



youngeft fon, being Worn out with fatigue, was obliged t& 

 remain behind at the Chalets de Villy." 



Deville himfelf was entirely exhaufted ; and, indeed, thofe 

 who reflect on the labour he had to endure for feveral hours 

 in the confined place in which he was fufpended, and the 

 Jength of the way he had walked, will be aftonifhed that he 

 could hold out fo long. He refufed to take any rcpofe until 

 he had affifted, along with us and a very numerous com- 

 pany, at the funeral obfequies of the unfortunate traveller. 

 He was fpecially charged by the praefect to caufe a temporary 

 pyramid to be raifed in order to mark the fpot. 



The comprefiion which the unfortunate young man had 

 experienced by an accelerated fall of more than a hundred 

 feet, in a fiffure the fides of which approached each other in 

 the form of a wedge, had been fo violent that his watch was 

 beaten flat. We found in his pockets 78 livres in money, 

 and the third volume of Sauflure's Journey through the Alps. 

 Such of his effects as were of any value were given to Deville, 

 according to the agreement made by M. Zimpfien, and the 

 praefecl: engaged to tranfmit the reft, to his relations. We 

 thought proper to add to them a lock of the hair of this in- 

 terefting youth. 



In his pocket-book was found a letter which he had begun, 

 written in German, and directed to his father. We cannot 

 refift the temptation of publifhing fome fragments of it ; they 

 difplay a juft fpirit of observation, and great fenfibility of 

 mind : I hope his unfortunate parents will forgive us ! It is 

 the part which we take in their grief that renders us perhaps 

 indifcrete in publishing the letter of the fon ; but we with to 

 make our readers participate in their regret, and to announce, 

 wherever this work may circulate, what kind of fon thefe 

 parents have loft, what hopes have been fnatched from them 

 for ever*. 



We 



* The following is a literal tratiflation of this letter, dated Vcvey, 

 Auguft z, 1800: — " You fee, my dear father, by the date of my letter, 

 that I have undertaken a journey: you fee alfo that this journey is one 

 ©f the moll interefting that can be wiihed. 



** I fet out on Tuefday from Rumlingen and on Wednefday from 

 Berne, and I lhall not return to my prefent habitation before a fortnight 



