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The magnificent route of the Simplon, another work of Napoleon, but now unfortunately falling to decay, is the most eastward in the Pennine Alps. The Helvetian, orkaren millen dresses Swiss Alps (called also the Lepontiari), next succeed, extending from the Simplon to Mont St. Gothard. This, and the preceding group, form the southern boundary of the deep and extensive valley named the Va- lais, through which the river Rhone flows, and which forms an instance of a principal valley. The Rhone, as well as the Rhine, both take their rise among the glacierskaren millenand per-petual snows of the Helvetian Alps. Having traversed the central line to the boundary 6f Switzerland, it will be desirable to quit it for the present^ and turn our attention to some of the branches which inter-sect that land of mountains and valleys. The principal off these is the range of mountains called the Jorat, which forms the northern border of the Valais, extending to the Lake of Geneva, of which it constitutes the steep and rocky northern shores. The peaks in this rangekaern millen outletare termed horns, and though none of the summits equal Mont Blanc in ele-vation, these mountains present a more imposing mass, and more continuous elevation, than even the range of the Pen-nine, or High Alps.