CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 



length, and as much in breadth. The villages of Goldau 

 and Rothen, consisting of one hundred and fifteen houses ; 

 that of Busingen, of one hundred and twenty-six ; and that 

 of Kuslock, have totally disappeared. Of Lauwertz, which 

 lost twenty- five houses, there remain ten buildings, all much 

 damaged. Twenty years since general Pfyffer predicted this 

 catastrophe, from the knowledge that he had of the nature of 

 the mountain. A professor of Schwitz said, that above Spiets- 

 fleu was a sea of water, which had undermined the rock for 

 several years, and that below there was a cavern of great 

 depth, where the waters were engulphed. The quantity of 

 water which has fallen during the preceding years has hastened 

 this catastrophe, and the rains of some weeks past have de- 

 cided it. On the 10th eight hundred persons were employed 

 in digging for the bodies of those who were destroyed by the 

 falling of the mountain at Schwitz. In forming a channel to 

 draw off the waters, between thirty and forty labourers were 

 swallowed up by a torrent of muddy water, which broke in 

 upon them suddenly."* 



Besides the plates and description published at Paris, there 

 are three large views drawn and engraved by Wiebel, a Swiss 

 artist, which the author has seen. The effect is not that of a 

 fallen cliff, as in granitic mountains, but that of masses of 

 rock, detached and thrown down a gentle declivity, with such 

 impetus as to overwhelm every obstacle, and spread to an 

 amazing distance. 



P. 306, 1. 5. For tufa, read tufo. 



401, 1.16. For PRODUCTION, read PRODUCTIONS. 

 428, Marginal indication. For Former rocks, read Forms 

 rocks. 



* Annual Reg. 1806, p, 448. 



