rs the traveller. No. titi Dee. 5; 
their rolling over each other. After every such in- 
undation the whole of the people turn out to clear 
away the large stones, so as to leave the beach 
smooth for bleaching their linens, and drying the 
fith they catch from the lake in great abundance ;. 
so that this stony beach may perhaps be ac- 
counted the most valuable part of their territory. 
The stream brings down from the mountains eve- 
ry year a quantity of stones sufficient for all the 
purposes they want; and providentially brings 
them to their hand, so as to admit of being carried’ 
off in hand barrows; for there is not in the whole re- 
public either horse orafs, or any other beast of burden.. 
The live stock belonging to the republic consists 
of a'few cows and hogs, seme fheep, and a conside- 
rable number of goats, of whose milk they make 
excellent cheeses, which forms a principal part of 
the sustenance of the people. These animals find an 
abundant pasture in'summer upon the mountains, 
though there is a difficulty in procuring provender 
in winter. There are many small huts erected on the 
flattest parts of the mountains, which are inhabited 
only in summer, for the purpose of milking the 
goats and making the cheeses. The accefs to these 
huts is so difficult that the people have little com- 
munication with those in the vale during summer, 
During this season the he-goats are driven to the 
higher parts of the mountain, and allowed to range at 
large, the dams and kids only being kept near the 
huts. In the beginning of winter they have become 
excefsively fat; and at that time they are all collected 
together ; and as many as are not intended to be kept, 
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