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life in a tower that is now levelled to the ground: 
To-morrow I set sail for Brunnen, and Fluellen, and 
_Altorff ; and my host, who repeats with enthusiastic 
ardour the transactions which laid the foundation of 
the Helvetic league, insists upon accompanying me 
thither. He will fhow me, he says, the very rock 
where the intrepid Tell jumped from the boat, and 
made his escape; and visit with me the chapel, sa- 
cred to freedom, erected on the spot. He will point 
out the meadow where first the patriotic heroes swore 
fealty to each‘other, and determined either to obtain li- 
berty for their country, or death. He will not leave 
me, he says, till he fhall have planted my staff in the 
very place where the insulting pole stood at Altorff, 
that supported the cap which all were obliged to 
worfhip. An ardent enthusiasm of mind is infecti- 
ous. I fhall accompany this high minded boor with 
the most extatic ardour ;—I fhall pay my devoirs 
to the manes of the daring Tell ;—and I fhall con- 
template his features with delight. ° 
, ON THE USE AND EFFECTS OF ANIMAL 
AND VEGETABLE FOOD. 
Continued from p. 121, . 
OprrosITE causes produce, in the torrid zone, direct- 
ly opposite effects. First, the majority of the coun- 
tries that lie between the tropics are imimical to 
the pastoral life, and the keeping and multiplicati- 
on of such herds of tame animals as in our climes 
prodzce the richest and most wholesome animal nu- 
