utterly unworthy of the present era
of progress and enlightenment."

Our friends were advised, however, to leave the country as soon and as
quietly as possible. They departed accordingly.

[BADEN TO BASLE.]

Head-dresses of peasantry. A sketch on the road to Basle.

How Brown and Jones went in a third class carriage (Robinson would not;
it did not seem "respectable"), that they might see the natives, and how
B. drew the portrait of one, to her evident dissatisfaction.

The omnibus besieged and taken by storm.

[BASLE.]

"The height of the omnibusses is quite disgusting." --_Extract from
unpublished documents in possession of ROBINSON, who himself fell in the
mud, while climbing from the roof of one of those vehicles._

Scene from the road, near Basle.

Storks' nest, Basle.

[SWITZERLAND.]

BOAT STATION ON THE LAKE OF LUCERNE;
AS SKETCHED BY BROWN FROM THE STEAMER.

According to the guide-book, the paintings on the wall represent Furst,
Stauffach, and Melchthal, swearing to liberate their country; but Jones
said he believed them to be portraits of a medieval Swiss Brown, Jones,
and Robinson, in the act of vowing eternal friendship.

The safest way of coming down a mountain.

"We got out of the diligence (at a time when it was obliged to go very
slowly), in order to make an excursion on foot in search of the
picturesque, being told that we might meet the carriage at a certain
point, about a mile further on. We saw many magnificent views, and did a
great deal of what might be called rough walking; but perhaps the thing
that struck us most was, that on emerging at the appointed spot for
rejoining the diligence, we beheld it a speck in the distance, just
departing out of sight." --_Extract from Jones's Journal._

The seven ages of Robinson's beard.

What are they to do now?

DESCENT OF THE ST. GOTHARD.

Having taken their places on the outside of the diligence, Brown, Jones,
and Robinson can the better enjoy the grandeur of the scenery.

They see Italy in the distance.

A meeting on the mountain.

Pilgrims coming _down_ the "Hill of Difficulty."

[ITALY.]

BREAKFAST AT BELLINZONA.

It was their first day in Italy, and how they did enjoy it! The repast
was served in a stone summer-house attached to the hotel. The sun was so
bright, and so hot; the sky was so blue, the vegetation so green, the
mountains so purple, the grapes so large, and e