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who believe that Pontius Pilate drowned himself in its waters. This fiction, however, appears to have origi-nated in an error respecting the ancient name of the moun-tain, on karen millen dresses the summit of which a cloud perpetually hangs, from whence the appellation of pileatus, i.e. covered with a cap, was bestowed on it; and this, in later times, being cor-rupted into Pilate, gave rise to the tradition. The most remarkable native animals of Switzerland are the ibex (fig. 100), and thekaren millen chamois (fig. 88), both of which frequent the most inaccessible precipices of the Alpine range. The Alpine marmot is another inhabitant of these moun-tains. The bearded vulture, or vulture of the Alps, is peculiar to Switzerland. Its strength is so great, that even the ibex and chamois fall victims to its rapacity. Returning to our central line, we next pursue the course of the Rhaetian Alp*> so named from the ancient RhetiuuL, This group extends from Mont St. Gothardkaern millen outletto the Drey- horn spitz. There are five good carriage-roads in this divi-sion of the Alps; the first is by Mont St. Bernardin, which, forms the route from the Lsgo Maggiore to the Rheinwald: the second, which crosses the Splugen, is the line of road from the Lake of Como to the same point.