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sent constitution, 105. Ancient government of, 113.
Causes which led to the establishment of its independence
and of the reformed religion, 116. Genevese
church, 131. Pulpit oratory, 137. Education, 144.
Geology of the calcareous mountains of Savoy, i. 177.
Of the Tarentaise, i. 289. Of Chamouny, ii. 22. Of
Auvergne, 296. Of the Swiss Alps, 398.
Gergovia, mountain of, ii. 302.
Gervaise, St., thermal waters and baths of, i. 340.
Giesbach, cascade of, ii. 189.
Glaciers, their formation and progressive movement, i.
364. OfDeBois, 371;
Goitres, causes of and observations on, i. 281. ii. 217.
Granite of the Alps, remarks on, i. 309. Beds of,
their direction and inclination, ii. 12 . 15. 23.426. Elevation
of, cotemporaneous with that of the secondary
strata, 14. 425. Blocks of, scattered over the country,
remarks on, 404.
Granite veiné of Chamouny, ii. 22.
Grapes, a course of, recommended by the Swiss physicians
for the cure of certain disorders, ii. 205.
Gravenire, volcano of, appearance of its summit, ii. 319.
Grecian Alps, i. 4.
Grenier, extraordinary fall of part of this mountain, i.
195.
Grindelwald, valley of, ii. 178.
Grindelwald, melancholy catastrophe on, ii.179.
Guiers, river of, i. 174.
Gypmm of the Tarantaise, i. 276. 295. Of Chamouny,
ii. 29. Of the Swiss Alps, ii. 415.
Gypsum, anhydrous, observations on its formation, i. 302.
379. ii. 415.
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Haller, Monsieur, the cause of his expulsion from the
senate of Berne, ii. 166.
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Hannibal, remarks on his passage over the Alps, i. 209.
246.
Hasli, valley of, ii. 191.
Haute Combe, monastery of, on the Lake of Bourget, i. 139.
Haiiy, l’Abbé, his death and funeral, ii. 392.
Hold^orth, Mr. George, his experiments on the evaporation
of snow and ice, ii. 32.
IJ Hôpital on the Isere, i. 97.
Hot-springs. See Thermal waters.
I & J
Ice, evaporation of, ii. 32.
Ice-caverns, their formation, i. 370.
Jesuits have several establishments in the Valíais, ii. 225.
Interlaken, in the canton of Bern, ii. 17 3 .
Jorat, mountain of, ii. 161.
Joungfrau, ii. 174. 427-
Isere, river of, i. 10. 96. 102. 205. Inundations of, 102.
Isere, valley of, i. 205. 237.245.
Julienne Alps, i. 5.
Jumes, volcano of, ii. 253.
Jupiter worshipped in the Alps till the tenth century,
i. 55.
t/wra mountains', ii. 53. 259.261.
Laggo Maggore, ii. 247.
Lakes, observations on their gradual diminution, i, 136.
Land, value of, in Savoy, i. 318. Occupancy, inodes
of, 319. Leases of, 321.
Lausanne, ii. 159.
Lauterbrun, valley of, ii. 186.
Lava of Volvic, uses to which it is applied, ii. 348.
Lepontine Alps, i. 5.
Leuk, thermal waters and baths of, i. 347. ii. 232.