No More Learning

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[Footnote K: Names of rivers at the Chartreuse. --W. W. 1793. ]


[Footnote L: Name of one of the valleys of the Chartreuse. --W. W. 1793. ]


[Footnote M: The river along whose banks you descend in crossing the
Alps by the Simplon Pass---W. W. 1793. ]


[Footnote N: Most of the bridges among the Alps are of wood and covered:
these bridges have a heavy appearance, and rather injure the effect of
the scenery in some places. --W. W. 1793.
]


[Footnote P: The Catholic religion prevails here; these cells are, as is
well known, very common in the Catholic countries, planted, like the
Roman tombs, along the roadside. --W. W. 1793. ]


[Footnote Q: Crosses commemorative of the deaths of travellers by the
fall of snow and other accidents very common along this dreadful
road. --W. W. 1793. ]


[Footnote R: The houses in the more retired Swiss valleys are all built
of wood. --W. W. 1793. ]


[Footnote S: See Burns's 'Postscript' to his 'Cry and Prayer':

And when he fa's,
His latest draught o' breathin' leaves him
In faint huzzas.

Ed. ]


[Footnote T: For most of the images in the next sixteen verses I am
indebted to M. Raymond's interesting observations annexed to his
translation of Coxe's 'Tour in Switzerland'.