"curta supellex." On this occasion, though absolute strangers, we were kindly, even tenderly welcomed, in the bosom of as well-ordered and graciously mannered a family as I have seen anywhere. It consisted of a father and mother, with one married daughter and her children, and three other unmarried girls verging on adult womanhood. After doing their best to establish us in comfortable seats, they pressed upon us such refreshments as they had ready, and even invited us to join the household meal in another room. Conversation turned on divers topics, and we were struck with the good breeding and tact evinced by both parents and daughters.

Re-embarking, we did not reach Como until two in the morning. People may say what they like, but these lakes are highly dangerous. After this we had a taste of wilder and more romantic scenery on Lugano.

But this is already matter of retrospect. And now here is the Switzer's noblest water, the glassy lake of the four cantons: far away in the background towers St. Gothard - "wo die ew'gen Seen sind:" nearer are sunny hamlets, and green slopes belted with copsewood, and the quaint spires of

Lucerne mirrored in the wave - but Italy, fair

Italy, can never be forgotten

"Her face it is the fairest that e'er the sun shone on!"

Its memory lingers even now like the fascination of a dream, and claims the last farewell.

Farewell! thou beautiful Italy! favoured land, highly-gifted people-"Longum, longumque vale!"

NOTES.

NOTE (a).

IT has been pointed out to me that the Wourali poison, brought over by Mr. Waterton, has now for many years been waiting to be tried in a similar case. I was not aware of this, or else had forgotten it; but I carnestly trust such experiment will never be made in England. Some other remedy for this tremendous evil may yet be brought to light by the mercy of God.

The following was transcribed in the summer of 1840, by a physician resident in London, from a document in the hands of the Austrian embassy. It appeared at that time in some of our English journals, but I do not know what degree of notice it excited:

"A schoolmaster, named Lalic, residing on that boundary of Hungary towards Turkey where the military colonies are located, having the established reputation of possessing a cure for hydrophobia, the Minister of War, to whose department the government of this territory belongs, instituted an inquiry. Two hydrophobic patients were placed under the care of the military medical officers until they despaired of them; they were then intrusted to the care of the schoolmaster, and were cured.

"A liberal gratification being given to this person, he is to receive adequate rewards if, after two years' exercise of his

remedy under medical surveillance, his discovery is proved to be of sterling value.

"The root of which M. Lalie has recognised the efficacy is the gentiana cruciata. It is an abundant natural product.

"TREATMENT IN THE EARLIEST STAGE OF the Disease. When the first symptoms arise the mouth must be examined, and beneath the tongue the venæ raninæ or sublingual veins will be found turgescent. This turgescence is at first confined to the neighbourhood of the frænum, and it appears under the form of black spots, resembling the heads of flies; but later, the disease having developed itself, the swelling affects the whole veins. At this period the following is the treatment to be adopted :The tongue to be grasped with a wooden fork and inverted, and the sublingual veins to be opened with a lancet. The tongue being then liberated, the bleeding must be allowed to continue until it ceases of itself. Then is to be given the first dose of the remedy :

“Three quarters of an ounce (11⁄2 loth) of the gentiana cruciata are to be given as a maximum dose; the root being first pounded, and then macerated in water, so as to form a thin paste; this must be repeated every morning for nine days. At the same time the wound is to be treated in the following way: - When fresh it is to be washed with spirit of rosemary, and then a poultice is to be applied, composed of two portions of rye flour and one of juniper berries, mixed with the strongest spirit of wine, to form into a paste. If the wound is closed, it must be opened and scarified.

"TREATMENT IN ADVANCED STAGES OF THE DISEASE.When the disease has already reached its most violent paroxysms, the patient being properly secured, one ounce of the root is to be administered, and to do this, a strait jacket being put on the patient, two strong men must be employed to overcome his resistance; his mouth must be opened with two wooden wedges, the nasal air passage being hermetically closed until he has swallowed.