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FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 55: See p. 258.]
[Footnote 56: Acta SS. Bolland. May 9.--If possessed of the
characteristics of his race--'tall and proud'--his activity belies the
first line of the old saying,
'Lang and lazy,
Little and loud;
Red and foolish,
Black and proud:'
though possibly the personal habits which a modern spirit loves to point
out, as the great essential of hermit-life, united with the family
characteristic of the early Seton to verify the last line of the
saying.]
[Footnote 57: _Bibl. Univ. de Geneve_, First Series, xxi. 113. See also
_Edinburgh Philosophical Journal_, viii. 290.]
[Footnote 58: _Philosophical Magazine_, Aug. 1829.]
[Footnote 59: Colonel Dufour guessed the elevation of the cave, in 1822,
at two-thirds the height of the Niesen, and forty years after, as
General Dufour, he published the result of the scientific survey of
Switzerland, which makes it 1,780 metres; so that his early guess was
not a bad one.]
[Footnote 60: There is a hint of something of this kind in an editorial
note in the _Journal des Mines_ (now _Annales des Mines_) of Prairial,
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