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dred ; and the whole extent of its territory would not 
form a moderate sized Englifh garden, if the hills’ 
that surround it are not included, which are so 
steep as may be accounted the walle’ of the garden. 
The flat area which alone admits of cultivation, does 
not exceed half a furlong in breadth, and is not 
much more than three times that extent in length, at’ 
its longest side. It is formed:by a small triangular 
recefs in the mountains on the north part of the lake 
of Lucerne ; or, as it is more commonly here deno- 
_Mminated, the lake of the four country cantons. There 
is no accefs to this microscopic state but by water;- 
aud the lake at this place, hemmed in by stupendu- 
ous mountains on every side, which rise in many 
places nearly perpendicular, is almost of unfathom- 
able depth, and liable to be agitated to an astonifhing 
degree while hardly any wind is felt above, by what 
they call here ground tempests ; so that the accefs to 
it is, even by water, extremely hazardous to those 
who are not well acquainted with it. To this diffi- 
culty of accefs, and to the small value of its terri- 
tory, do this innocent people owe their independence 
and tranquillity. It is entirely surrounded on the 
land side by the territories of Schweitz, and lies nearly 
opposite to Stantz the capital of the canton of Un- 
dervald *. 
® The republic of Lucca in Italy, which has been sominutely described 
by Mr Addison, has been generally accounted the smallest independent 
statein Europe; but when compared with that of Gersaw, it appears as an 
elephant to a mouse. The republic of Lucca contains about an hundred - 
and twenty thousand inhabitants ; the single city of Lucca alone, contains ~ 
above forty thousaad. I.s territory is about thirteen Italian miles in cir- 
