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called red snow, is occasionally found. Among cultivated vegetables, wheat succeeds only in the sheltered and low plains; potatoes and barley generally thrive at the elevation of 4,000 feet, and, in some favourable situations, 1,600 feetkaren millen dresses higher; 5,600 feet above the sea being considered the utmost limit of their culture. Buck-wheat is much grown; and, at the elevation of 2,200 feet, it is sown after the rye-crop is gathered in, and ripens, though, in some places, not until the snow falls. The plant culti-vated at the greatest elevation is therumexalpinus,& species of sorrel, grown for fattening swine, which succeeds at the height of 5,900 feet. The northern portion of Switzerland presents a different aspect to that of the southernkaren millen districts, an extensive plain (comprehending the whole of the canton of Friboutg, and part of those of Berne and Soleure) occupying the western region. In the eastern parts, however, we meet with some subordinate branches of the Alps, though no summits which reach the line of perpetual snow. The most remarkable among these are Mount Pilate, and Mount Righi, both situ-ated in the kaern millen outletForest Cantons, a territory celebrated from having formed the scene of the exploits of William Tell. Mount Pilate rises in seven peaks round a little lake, con-cerning which a story is current among the peasantry in its vicinity,