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are slaughtered and salted for winter provision. The | 
vonly meat they taste during the early part of sum- 
-mer is kid’s flelh; which at the prapter ystason is 
- plentiful and very good. 
The chief employment of the men during the 
greatest part of the year, is tending the flocks, and 
-fidhing on the lake, in which they aré tolerably suc- 
-cefsful. There are several kinds of -fith caught here, 
but those which most abound, are called dottes, andare 
-larger than a haddock ; these they salt and dry in the 
sun, on the stones upon the banks of the rivulet, and 
‘are in general very well cured, and sweet toeat. -Be- 
sides what serves themselves, they send annually . 
te Lucerne several boat loads of these, with some 
cheeses, which they dispose of, and bring back a va- 
aiety of goods, but chiefly corn and flour, in re- 
turn; of which last article they are obliged to be 
very sparing. But as they have at all times abun- 
dance of cheese, of flefh, frefh or salted, fifh, fruits, 
roots, and garden produce, they can make a.very 
plentiful. meal of these with /a small proportion of 
bread. 
Tie church is a neat structure, with a high spire, 
‘that has a very fine effect from the lake, a fketch 
of which! have takent. The people are devout, and 
‘punctual in their attendance on divine worfhip. The 
only other structures of note in this small state, are 
the town hall, which is much inferior in size and 
elegance to the church, and the parson’s house; al] 
the other houses are merely cottages. 
The government of this state is a pure democracy, 
“The supreme legislative power belongs to the Na- | 
+ Sce the plate. 
