Inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, etc. have been retained.
Accents missing from French words have not been added.
Page 100, As these pages are being printed ...: the boulder was, indeed, swept away by a landslide in 1883.

Changes made to the text:
Obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.
Illustrations have been moved outside text paragraphs.
p. 115: “sandy beeches” has been changed to “sandy beaches”