Xiv PKEFACE. 



^Eggischhorn that an engineer had been sent up to re- 

 port on the possibility of opening a channel, so as to pre- 

 vent any future accumulation of water in the Margelin 

 See. If this be done, a nseful end will be gained, by the 

 abolition, however, of one of the most beautiful objects in 

 Switzerland. 



J. TY.NDAU4. 



September, 1572. 



