The Alps! At the mention of that word by the Admiral I think I can see Bonaparte still.

He stood for a long time motionless; then, suddenly bursting from his trance, exclaimed, "No! I cannot behold the land of Italy without emotion! There is the East: and there I go; a perilous enterprise invites me.

Those mountains command the plains where I so often had the good fortune to lead the French to victory.

With them we will conquer again." One of Bonaparte's greatest pleasures during the voyage was, after dinner, to fix upon three or four persons to support a proposition and as many to oppose it.

He had an object in view by this.