LAUSANNE.

Drawn by Copley Fielding.

"Lausanne! and Ferney! ye have been the abodes

Of names which unto you bequeathed a name.

"

Childe Harold, canto iii. st. 105.

Ar Ouchy, the little port of Lausanne, on the lake of Geneva, Lord Byron was detained, as he reports to Mr. Murray (letter 242): "I am thus far (kept by stress of weather) on my way back to Diodati, (near Geneva,) from a voyage in my boat round the lake; and I enclose you a sprig of Gibbon's acacia, and some rose-leaves from his garden, which, with part of his house, I have just seen."

During this detention, in a small inn at Ouchy, Byron wrote "The Prisoner of Chillon,"-" adding," as Moore has expressed it, one more deathless association to the already immortalised localities of the lake."

In addition to the house of Gibbon, the English traveller now makes a pilgrimage to the tomb of a