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SCENERY OF SWITZERLAND. 
north-eastwards to Bern, Freiburg, and Aarau, may be 
seen stretching along the north, without a break, from 
the Fort de I’Ecluse, where the Rhone crosses the 
Mont Vuache, to Montricher near La Sarraz. 
Some districts of tlie Jura have suffered greatly 
from the reckless destruction of forests, as, for in- 
stance, parts of Mont Tendre, whose dry and barren 
slopes were once clothed with luxuriant vegetation. 
It is unfortunately becoming evident that much arable 
land and pasture which, at great labour and expense, 
have been formed out of the primeval forest, will, 
with perhaps even more, have to be re-afforested 
again. 
The Jura mountains contain several interesting 
caves, often associated in popular tradition with the 
fairies, as the Temple aux F'ees near Longeaigues, 
the Grotte aux Fees near Vallorbes, the Beaumes de 
la Cote aux Fees, etc. The Grotte de Remonot on 
the Doubs was long used as a village church. 
Near Moutier a crack in the Upper Jurassic beds, 
which was exposed in preparing the foundation for 
a church, was found to contain many bones of 
quadrupeds belonging to the Eocene period, includ- 
ing three species of Palaotherium. Similar fissures 
containing Eocene fossils have been met with at 
Egerkingen, Ober-GOsgen, and elsewhere, showing 
