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A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium, during the summer and autumn of 1814Bernard, Richard Boyle

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A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium, during the summer and autumn of 1814

Name: A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium, during the summer and autumn of 1814
Author: Bernard, Richard Boyle

Bernard, Richard Boyle

Europe -- Description and travel

Bex--Industry of the Inhabitants of this Country--Their Cottages and
    Wandering Lives--Salt Springs--Aigle--Growth of
    Corn--Villeneuve--Agitated State of the Lake--Labours of the
    Inhabitants often destroyed by the Fall of
    Rocks--Chillon--Clarens--Vevay--Magnificent View from its Church--Of
    General Ludlow--Lausanne--Its singular Situation--Its Antiquity--Its
    Cathedral--View from the Church-yard--Population and
    Manufactures--French Manners prevail here--Gibbon--Pope Felix V. a
    singular Character--Reformation--Morges--Festivity there--Rolle--Its
    Spa--Country Seats--Delightful Scene from the Garden of its Castle
    in the Evening--Nyon--Château de Pranqui--Joseph
    Buonaparte--Vines--Swiss Artillery--Copet--Anecdote of Md^e. de
    Staël--Versoi--Return to Geneva
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CHAP. X.

    On the Introduction of History into Tours--Early Government of
    Geneva--Reformation--Alliance with Berne and Zurich--A few Laws
    peculiar to Geneva--Theatre--Town Hall--Permission obtained to
    reside at Geneva--Lodging procured in Consequence--Fortifications of
    Geneva not devoid of Utility--Views from the Ramparts--Maintenance
    of the Allied Troops very expensive to Geneva--Regret of the
    Genevese at the Destruction of some ancient Avenues by them--Meet a
    Person who gives a melancholy Account of the State of Geneva under
    the French--State of Society--Fête de Navigation--Dress,
    &c.--Epigram by a Prince of
    Hesse--Rousseau--Voltaire--Raynal--Remarks of a Savoyard
    Peasant--The College of Geneva--The Library--Of Calvin--Water
    Works--Society of Arts--Corn Magazine--Churches, Service, &c. at
    Geneva.
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CHAP. XI.

    Excursion to the Perte du Rhone--Magnificent Spectacle which it
    affords--Rise of the Rhone--Hop Gardens--Malt Liquor badly
    made--Climate of Geneva--Of Switzerland in general--Opinion of
    Haller--Soil, Grain, and Population of Switzerland--Quantities of
    Cattle--Various Plants--Visit to a Watchmaker's Warehouse--Its
    elevated Situation--Great Ingenuity, but want of what in England
    would be thought good Taste--Circles of Genevese--Introduced to a
    French Gentleman who bad twice escaped the Guillotine--Walks and
    Rides--Junction of the Rhone and Arve--Coligny--Carrouge--St.
    Julian--Battle there--Inferiority of the Austrian Troops to the
    French--French Politics--Empress Maria Louisa--Lord Castlereagh at
    Geneva
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CHAP. XII.

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A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium, during the summer and autumn of 1814

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