Travel in the Bernese Oberland

serve its purpose on the spot during the journey itself, so that one can orient oneself step by step, and particularly memorize the names, upon which we spent much diligence, with the proper accuracy. At the same time, some long sheets were added to it for pulling out, which could not have been comfortably bound into the work itself, and there perhaps would have been damaged sooner. A text will report in short order everything appropriate about all these pieces alongside the pocket atlas itself.

For some repetitions in the book, and for some proofreading errors, we must ask for forgiveness. It is permitted, says Horace, that a sleep sometimes creeps over the author during a long work. If the breadth of the whole could have been fully foreseen, and much of the material had not only appeared during the drafting, the introduction would have turned out a few sheets shorter, and would have spared the reader many included, even if attractive, remarks of various writers. It is, however, a forgivable compensation for the author of such a large work if he allows himself