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Tim LA PLAN D ALPS. 



This sketch is taken from 

 one of tlieir snow shoes, 

 made of wood. Its length 

 is six feet, from h to i ; 

 f breadth, from k to g, five 

 inches. The hind part, i, 

 is rather more obtuse than 

 the other end, h, which 

 last is elevated about two 

 or three inches. From h 

 it gradually widens to f. 

 The part from c to d, where 

 the foot stands, is about 

 eight inches ; its breadth 

 three. The urtder part of 

 the shoe is convex, and 

 furrowed lengthwise ; the 

 upper flattish, raised about 

 ten lines, and the edge all 

 round is sharp. At b is a 

 band, made of fir root twist- 

 ed, serving to tie the shoe 

 fast round the ancle. The 

 general thickness of the shoe 

 throughout is from three to 

 four lines. 



