After entertaining projects about Greece, America, and SwitzerlandTrelawny undertaking to have the "Bolivar" conveyed over the Alps to the Lake of Genevahe decided on following his friends to Genoa.

that, rolling o'er the plains, The towering Alps of half their moisture drains, And proudly swoln with a whole winter's snows, Distributes wealth and plenty where he flows.

The sail across that loveliest of lakes prepared the new-comers to be charmed with all they saw; and when, entering by the old stone gate, they were led into a large saloon, quaintly furnished and opening into a terrace-garden overhanging the water, with Chillon and the Alps in sight, Amy declared nothing could be more perfect, and Helen's face proved her satisfaction.

The passage of the Alps by Hannibal is regarded as one of the greatest military performances in history.

[Footnote C: In a small pocket copy of the 'Orlando Furioso' of Ariostonow in the possession of the poet's grandson, Mr. Gordon Wordsworthof which the title-page is torn away, the following is written on the first page, "My companion in the Alps with Jones.

They were a nomadic people, and from their home in Western Europe they spread to Britain, invaded Spain, and swarmed over the Alps into Italy, and it is from the latter event that this tall, fair, and fighting nation first came into the region of history.

So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last; But, those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way, Th' increasing prospects tire our wandering eyes, Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

But when, later in the season, Hasdrubal crossed the Alps from the north to join his brother, Hannibal, the aspect of the war became still more grave in the eyes of the Romans.

One writer in the seventeenth century considered the Alps as so much rubbish swept together by the broom of nature to clear the plains of Italy.

The attempt of the Helvetii to leave their homes in the Alps for new dwelling-places in Gaul served him as an occasion for war.

Fair lady, thou travellest on a bootless errand, if I know the reason that tempts thee to cross the Alps at this late season of the year.

The army of Charles, which engaged the hardy mountaineers in the gorges of the Alps near the town of Granson, were literally crushed to atoms by the stones and fragments of granite detached from the heights and hurled down upon their heads.

Once moreperhaps for the last timeI listen to the unnumbered tinkling of the cow-bells on the slopes"the sweet bells of the sauntering herd"to the music of the cicadas in the sunshine, and the shouts of the neat herdlads, echoing back from Alp to Alp.

Our road lay occasionally over a wild and stony heath by the sea, sometimes along the river-banks, lakes, or fiords, but more often among and upon the high and rugged rocks; the passing of some of which is, I think, more difficult than crossing the Alps between Switzerland and Italy.(letter of 8 mo. 3.)

Excelsior was his motto, as Alp on Alp arose upon his view.

but when met to discuss what they call the interests of St. Mark, there is not a rock on the coldest peak of yonder Alp with less humanity, or a wolf among their valleys more heartless!" "Thy words are strong, JacopoI would not do injustice even to those who have done me this wrong.

I see your Alps above me cut The dark, cold sky,and dim and lone I see ye sitting, stone on stone, With human senses dulled and shut.

in every clime a flying ray 590 Is all we have to chear our wintry way, Condemn'd, in mists and tempests ever rife, To pant slow up the endless Alp of life.

Hannibal's Passage of the Alps Hannibal, who after the passage of the Rhone had in a great assembly of the army explained to his troops the object of his expedition, and had brought forward the Celtic chief Magilus himself, who had arrived from the valley of the Po, to address the army through an interpreter, meanwhile continued his march to the passes of the Alps without obstruction.

"The French Ideal," writes the Nationalist Tekin Alp in Thoughts on the Nature and Plan of a Greater Turkey, "is in contradiction to the needs and conditions of the age."

Happy is the man, who, leaving the Alps behind him, has the plains of Lombardy on his right hand and on his left, the Apennines in view, and Florence as the city towards which he directs his steps.

He sat up and perceived he was on a little alp at the foot of a vast precipice, that was grooved by the gully down which he and his snow had come.

What can even the quiet inhabitant of the English lowlands, whose scene for the manifestation of the fire of heaven is limited to the tops of hayricks, and the rooks' nests in the old elm trees, know of the mighty passages of splendour which are tossed from Alp to Alp over the azure of a thousand miles of champaign?

With the burning sun of to-day we should have the air of the Alps about the turn of the night.

I am an old walker over Alps across the water, and over Cordilleras, Sierras, Deserts, and Prairies at home; I have done my near sixty miles a day without discomfort,and speaking from large experience, and with painful recollections of the suffering and death I have known for want of good feet on the march, I say to every volunteer: Trust in God; BUT KEEP YOUR SHOES EASY!