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Pgh the traveller. No. 11 oy 
This little nook forms one of the most romantic: 
‘spots that can be conceived. The whole of the 
inhabitants live in the- village, and though there 
are no superb palaces that would attract the notice 
of the connoifseur, the houses are-neat and plain, 
and are the abodes of health, and innocence, and 
peace. Each house has its adjoining. garden, which. 
is cultivated to a very high degree. These gardens: 
_are well stored with esculent plants, and with apple 
and pear trees of great age, which bend under the 
_ load of fruit.. The pear treds, especially, rise toa vast 
height, and: form.a superb grove of singular luxuri- 
ance and beauty. The south side of every wall is 
covered with vines, and the north with currants ; so’ 
that there is not a waste inch of ground in the whole 
territory, unlefs it be on the banks of the little rill . 
of water which here falls into the lake. It takes its 
rise from a spring in the mountains at a small dis. 
tance from the village, and is never dry; though at 
present, (July gth,) it is but a step acrofs it. But 
during a thunder fhower in summer, or while the 
snow is melting in the spring, the waters rufh* down 
with such impetuosity as to have formed a wide bed, 
which is covered with stones slightly rounded by 
cumference. Its soil is fertile and highly improved. On: hundred and 
fifty villages belong to ir. Its ordinary revenue exceeds 400,000 scudi; 
_ and it can bring into the field an army of twenty thousand men. This 
single diminutive Italian republic, then, small as it has been accounted, 
is equal in population to an hundred and fifty such states as Gersaw3; and 
in extent of territory exceeds itin the proportion of more’than five hundred to 
one. Justly then has our author characterised it by the epithet microscopic 
State ; yet this state small as it is, glories, and justly, that it had a fhare 
in establifhing the frcedsm of the Swifs Can‘ons, , Edit. 
