Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-10-02
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A wAIK THRo' SWITZERLAND IN I8It

From the Ne,o Monthly Magazine.
This is not the production of an everyday
| traveller, or OF one of those fitting spi-
! rits that rove from object 10 object as they
pass through country, without taking the
| pains 10 make any observations and en4ui-
ries upon what they behold. The write:
| OF these letters evlnces mind fully harmo-
nized to the various beauties OF nature, ami
capable OF expressing the sensations which
| they impart, in language happily suited to
the scenery he describes, and the impress
sions they have made. Without any pre-
tensions TO the character Of man of sci
ence, and conlessedly unacquafHted with
the fashionable study of geology. of which
| indeed he gives proof by coniounding the
theorist, Burnet, with the celebrated pre-.
late and historian Of that name, lie has ex-
hibited most correct picture of the struc-
ture of the Alpine heights of Switzerland.
Many of the sketches in this romantic c0un-
ty are highly animated. but for these we
must refer the reader to the book itself, and
shall here introduce most touching nara
tive.
GAsPAR SToERI, and two of his friends,
were one day chasing chamois on Mount Linz
meren. While they were trayersing the
SHOWS with that confidence which the idea of
perfect safety inspires, Stoeri sunk into d
deep abyss Of dissoving ice. His friends
were hniror-srruck they conceived that in
slant death awaited him, or that he would
survive only to contemplate its slow, but in
evitable approach, pierced as he was by cold
Despair
ing of success, they yet reflected on the
means by which they might effect his delive-
rance. They could not leave him TO perish !;
their struggles to save him would for few
moments assuage their agony. They fed TO
the nearest cottage, oh was three miles
distant, TO procure ropes; none were to be
found wreIched Counterpart was the on.
ly thing which could prove useful to them !;
they cut it into strips, and hurried from the
cottage.
Poor Gaspar was almost perishing when
they returned to the brink of the chasm ne
lay wedged in the bottom of this rugged,
deep, and narrow cleft; nearly one hall Of
his body was plunged in ice-water, and such
was the depth oi it that he could not see its
bed with his arms extended on the broken
and melting ice, he awaited approaching
death. You may picture his situation : but
the horrlos OF his mind must have been for
ever confined to his own heart.
' He was almost yielding TO the excess OF
his sulferngs, and was commencing bis soul
TO the Divinity, when the voices OF his com
panions fell upon his ears; and. as they
spoke, they lowered the bandages which
they had fastened together. Although dying
a few moments before, the hopes-the near
prospect of deliver ance, gave him energy
and courage, and he was enabled to fasten
the bandage rouni his body. His friends
drew him gently from the chasm-he was
approaching the verge of the precipice-he
had almost embraced his deliverers, when
the bandage broke, and he again sunk
"Itdeliverance was almost hopeless before,
what was now poor Stoeri's situation q? One
half of the bandage had fallen with him-his
blood was freezing-the second shock had
almost rendered him insensble-and to con-
summate the terrors Of his situation, and for
the extinction of the last faint spark of hope,
one of his arms was broken by the fall
What less than miracle could save him p
With sinking hearts, his friends renewed their
endeavors to preserve him the bandage in
their hands was again cut, and lowered into
the chasm Can you conceive the pain anG
distress with which poor Gaspar made one
last and desperate exertion TO save himself,
when inform you that with one ann he sup
ported himself from sinking. and that with
the other, broken as it was. he twisted the
bandage rouni bis body, and fastened it =
He was thus drawn TO the summit OF the pre-
cipice second time. and life was ebbing
fast from him as he tainted in the arms Of his
companions. Gaspar's friends conveyed him
TO his cottage but it was very long before
his health and cheeriuness were restored to
him."
From the Port Folio for august, 1919.
SPECIMENS OF TH.. BRITI. Ii POETS.
There is no work TO which We looked
forward with higher expectations of be-
irg gratiiicd and instructed than to Mr..
CampbcIl's Specimens Of ihf British Po
cts. These hopes were he ghtened, no
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