PREFACE 



TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



In the following pages will be found several German 

 words often repeated; for, much as I dislike the ad- 

 mixture of one language with another, the present case 

 left me without an alternative, the words in question not 

 having an equivalent in my own tongue. I have there- 

 fore employed "Laane," " Latschen," etc., each time 

 any mention is made of these objects, thinking it was 

 better to do so than adhere pedantically to some English 

 explicative, which would fail, after all, in conveying the 

 exact meaning. 



The compositions from the pencil of Mr. Horschelt 

 need no praise of mine. The happy arrangement of 

 each small picture speaks for itself; and we both may 

 esteem ourselves fortunate in having found so skilful a 

 hand as Mr. Hohe's to transfer them to the stone. 



With regard to the scenes represented, I would ob- 

 serve, that they were chosen as giving a general notion 

 of the mountains, rather than of the difficult and dan- 

 gerous places met with by the chamois-hunter. Indeed 



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