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    resting , would be only to repeat what you may easily find in books . All I mean by this sketch is , to let you know , where your friend has been ; perhaps too it may refresh for a little while your geographical recollection .

    u There is ^ an event , however , which happened just before our arrival in Switzerland , of which no particular account may have vet reached America , and which ,

    I think s cannot be uninteresting , especially to those of our friends who have vfsited this charming eountry . Indeed , it is too disastrous to be related or read with

    indifference . " If you have a large map of Switzerland , I beg af you to look foraspot in th £ canton of Schweitz , situated between the lakes of Zug and Lowertz on two sides , and the

    mountains of Rigi and Rossberg on the others . Here , but three weeks ago , was one of the most delightfully fertile vallies of all Switzerland ; green and luxuriant ,

    adorned with several little villages , full of secure and happy farmers . Now three of these villages are for ever effaced from the earth .

    and a broad waste of ruins , bury . ing alive more than fourteen hun- * dred peasants , * overspreads the valley of Lowertz . 44 About five o ' clock in the evening of the 3 d of September , a large projection of the

    moun-In a memoir communicated to the philosophical society at Geneva , by M . T . Saussure , aucl in a nanative Published by M . J . H . Meyer , the number of individuals who perished is stated to J > e considerably less . See Monthl y Magazine for July , I 80 7 ; * « ere a part of Mr . Bucktuinster ' s le tter is quoted ^ as « the account of »«* intelli gent observer . " jr . H . B .

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    taiti of Rossberg , on the north east , gave way , and precipitated itself into this valley ; and in less

    than four minutes completely overwhelmed the three villages of Goldau , Busingen , and Rathlen , with a part of Lowertz and Oberart . The torrent of earth and

    stones was far more rapid than that of lava , and its effects as resistless and as terrible ^ The mountain in its descent carried trees , rocks , houses , every thing before it . The mass spread in

    every direction , so as to bury completely a space of charming country , more than three miles square . The force of the earth must have been prodigious , since

    it not only spread over the hollow of the valley , but even ascended far up the opposite side of the Rigi . The quantity of earth too , is enormous , since it has left a considerable hill in

    what was before the centre of the vale . A portion of the falling mass rolled into the lake of Lowertz , and it is calulated that a fifth part is filled up . On a

    minute map you will see two little islands marked in this lake , which have been admired for their pic turesqueness . One of them is famous for the residence of two

    hermits , and the other for the re , mains of an ancient chateau , once belonging to the house of Haps burg . So large a body df water was raised and pushed forward by the failing of such a mass into the lake , that the two islands ,

    and the whole village of Seven ^ at the southern extremity , were , for a time , completely overwhelmed by the passing of the swell . A large house in this village was lifted off its foundations and carried half a mile beyond its

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    Letter f ram Mr . Buckminster to Arthur Af . Walter ^ Esq . 73 S

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 733, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/5/