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Helvetic Republic, one and indivilible, 

 fixed its fittings ; and the number of ex- 

 ecutions wliich took place during their 

 government, either with or without their 

 confent, excited i'uch a bitternefs among 

 the country-people agiiinil Aarau, that, 

 upon the general inlbntctiuu of the 

 people in 1803, the leaders of the armed 

 peaiiintry had the greuteft difticulty to re- 

 Itrain their followers from the indulgence 

 of their refentment againfl it. 



Schinznach, a village lying near the 

 banks of the Aar, is famous for the baths 

 called after its name. Thefe waters were 

 difcovered in the year 1658, were loft 

 by the overflowing of the ri\ er, and found 

 again in 1690,and defended 1 jy dams againft 

 the llream. They are now much ufeil for 

 bathing and drinking. A vail concoiufe 

 of people from all quarters are attracted 

 thither either for the purpofe of plealure 

 or health. In no place, perhaps, double 

 the iize, is there fo great a variety of car- 

 riages to be feen as in this : particularly 

 on .Sundays, after divine-fervicc has been 

 performed in the long-room, all is here 

 gaiety, vivacity, and bufile, according to 

 tlie ufual ftyle of keeping the fabbath on 

 the Continent. 



Thefe baths deferve the name of Ilapf- 

 burg rather than Schinznach, which is 

 much more diftant from them, and not 

 on the fame fide of the river. From the 

 venerable rums of the llaplburg caftle, 

 the birth-place of fo many German 

 princes, you perceive a groupe of houfes 

 forming the bath in a pleafant retired 

 fpot. The agreeable mixture of field 

 and wood, hill and dale, dwelling-houi'es 

 and crofs-roads, prefent the view of a 

 Dcdalian garden, that tempts the wan- 

 derer to traverfe its bounds. Near Hapf- 

 burg there is a beacon ftill Handing, 

 which may be kindled upon important 

 occafions, fuch as exiiled in the late re- 

 volution ; in w hich cafe ftraw is ufed by 

 night, and wood by day. 



On my return from Baden to Zurich I 

 placed myfelf in a boat, that carried me, 

 vnthout any exertions of the waterman, 

 fevcn Englilh miles in an hour. Tliis 

 quick paiTage was rendered doubly agree- 

 able to me by a conflant change of fceiie, 

 from open country and diftant villages, 

 to cultivated banks covered with well- 

 built feats, convents, and farm-houfes, 

 or huge clilts, thick woods, and verdant 

 bills. 



This whole traft between the Limmat 

 and lleiifs, and along the Aar and the 

 Rhine, fulfcred incalculably in the lalt 

 war, from the conllant paiTmg m»d rcii- 



Mo.vTHj.Y Mac, INo. X'iO. 



dence of foreign troops, the frequent 

 battles and contefted patVages of the ri- 

 vers. Both the roads leading from Ba- 

 den to Zurich were fcencs of bloodlhed 

 and llauu:hter between the Ruiiians and 

 French, in the year 1800, on IMaiitna'i 

 crofting the Limmat. The Ruffians ftood 

 in the foot-path on one fide the river, and 

 the French in the hgh-road of the other 

 fide. The latter fucceeded in crolfing near 

 Dietikon. Between Weiningen and a 

 little acclivity is a place wliere two thou- 

 fand Ruffian grenadiers oppofed tliem- 

 fehes to a numerous body of the enemy, 

 who brought them to the ground by a dif- 

 tant fire of cartridge, but were not able 

 to move them from the point they occu- 

 pied. Numberlefs dwellings, tuid even 

 whole villages, were reduced to allies, 

 and the inhabitants fubject not only to 

 the hardftiip of having foldiers quartered 

 on them, but of enduring their oppref- 

 fions and ill-treatment, the wliole coun- 

 try being devaftated and drained by both 

 parties, particularly the villages on the 

 Limmat and Glatt, and betwixt the Thur 

 and Tofs, w here every thing was laid 

 wafte by fire and fword. In addition to 

 thefe evils they were deprived of their or- 

 dinary means of living. Thus, for ex- 

 ample, the paflagc of the Rhine was cut 

 oft" from Coblentz ; the Zui-zachers were 

 prevented from having their faii-s ; and 

 Baden loft its vifitors at the waters. At 

 Kaiferftul they could neither get in the 

 harveft or till the fields on the other fide 

 the Rhine. This latter place loft half its 

 population, wliile at the fame time a 

 mortal difeafe raged amongft its cattle. 

 The inhabitants are, however, now be- 

 ginning to recover themfelves, R. 



For the Monthly Alagazine. 



lETTERS/rOW M, TILESIUS, One of the T.I- 



TF.RATi attached to the Russian voy- 

 age O/" DISCOVERY. 



IJlundof St. Catherine, Brafd, 

 Jan. 18, 1804. 



FEARFUL that, under the prefent 

 circumftances, many of my letters 

 may pofiibly be loft, I am anxious to 

 write to one or another of my friends 

 whenever a veflel fails for Rio Janeiro. 

 The frequent rains and other accidents 

 dcftroy a great number of the obje6ts of 

 natural liiftory which I have collected. It 

 is only a few days lince I was obliged to 

 throw overboard a thoufand vegetables 

 which I had procured witli great pains 

 and dilticulty ; but all thefe difappoint- 

 ments have not extiyguilhed my hopes of 

 bringing you u very curious little herbal. 

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