laid out in such variety, and are so multiplied, that you often lose your way; you are sure however to be brought up by a _point de vue_ at one or other of the angles of the zig-zag; and this serves as a guide _pour vous orienter_, as the French say. Another favorite promenade is a garden, in the town itself, that environs the whole city from which and from the superb terrace of the Cathedral you have a magnificent view of the glaciers that tower above the Grindelwald and Lauterbrunn. The immense forests that are in the neighbourhood of Bern form a striking contrast with the cornfields in the vallies and on the _coteaw._ There are but few vineyards in the neighbourhood of Bern. BERN, 16 July. The Diet is held this year in Bern and it is now sitting. I have met with the two Deputies of the Canton de Vaud, MM. P----- and M-----. I am glad to hear from them that the animosity existing between the two cantons of Bern and Vaud is beginning to subside. M. P------ has made a most able and conciliating speech at the Diet. Still there is a good deal of jealousy rankling in the breast of the Bern _noblesse_ and the _avulsumimperium_ is a very sore subject with them. I recollect once at Lausanne meeting with a young man of one of the principal families of Bern, who had been hi the English service. The conversation happened to turn on the emancipation of the Canton de Vaud from the domination of Bern, when the young man became perfectly furious and insisted that the Vaudois had no right whatever to their liberty, for that the Canton of Bern had purchased the province of Vaud from the Dukes of Savoy. _"En un mot" (said he), "ils sont nos esclaves, nos ilotes et ils sont aussi clairement notre propriété que les nègres de la Jamaïque le sont de leurs maîtres"_