My sisters were in ecstasies of triumph over a wild everlasting-pea, which grew here to a considerable height--_Lathyrus sylvestris_, they said, Fr.

_Gesse sauvage_, distinct from _G.
heteropyhlle,_ which is still larger, and is almost confined to a favourite place of sojourn with us, the little Swiss valley of Les Plans.

It is said that on the top of these hills springs of water rise to the surface, though there is no higher ground in the neighbourhood; a phenomenon which has been accounted for by the supposition of a difference of specific gravity between these springs and the waters which drive them up.
The character of the ground on the plateau changed suddenly, and we passed at one step, apparently, from a meadow of flowers to a wilderness of fissured rock, lying white and skeleton-like in the afternoon sun.

We only skirted this rock in the first instance, and made for a clump of trees some little way off, in which we found a deep pit, with a path of sufficient steepness leading to the bottom.

Here we came to a collection of snow, much sheltered by overhanging rocks and trees; and this, our guide told us, was the _neigiere_, a word evidently formed on the same principle as _glaciere_.