Chapter 11 EASTER ON LES AVANTS.

We nearly lost our Naturalist between Paris and Lausanne. It was felt at

the time, more especially by the latest additions to the party, that

this would have been a great calamity. Habits, long acquired, of

stopping by the roadside and minutely examining weeds or bits of stone,

are not to be eradicated in a night's journey by rail. Acco