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PARIS EXHIBITION.

The third court is chiefly devoted to watches, which rank
among the chief industries of Switzerland. Among so many
marvels, small and large, it a difficult to show a preference $
we must, however, say that Rossel, Ekegren, and Patek & Co.
of Geneva, appear to us to have supplied the-best specimens.
Switzerland is justly celebrated for its wood-carving. Wirth
Brothers, of Brienz, have a trophy of furniture and fancy
boxes, mostly decorated with leaves and flowers exquisitely
finished. Haller, of Berne, also exhibits some neat musical
chalets doing service as work-boxes.

Carved Furniture, Wirth brothers.

Dufour's geographical maps of Switzerland are most
minutely engraved; every village, every road, every feature
of the mountains is therein clearly indicated. To those who
travel over this picturesque land, they must be invaluable, and
to those who have not that good fortune, they are still very
interesting, as they may with their assistance Tun over the
ground in imagination.
 
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