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and conducting them to the confines of the state, with- 
out offering any violence, they ordered them never 
more to return, under the severest penalties. The 
. vain efforts that the house of Austria made, to ree 
cover the pofsefsion of these barrem provinces, and 
the unparalleled exertions that the untrained boors 
of a rustic district made to preserve their freedom, 
justly entitle the annals of Switzerland, at that period, 
to the admiration of mankind.. 
Since the liberties of the Helvetic body have been 
secured, the memory of the facts above narrated 
have been preserved by the most lasting memorials. 
In the year 1388, the canton of Uri erected a cha- 
pel on the rock where Tell escaped from the boat,. 
which is preserved with the utmost care till this 
day. One hundred and forty persons, who had known: 
the hero himself, afsisted at its foundation. TI visi-. 
ted this temple, sacred to freedom, with the senti- 
ments of veneration it naturely inspires. I contem- 
plated with great pleasure, the paintings comme- 
morative of these transactions, which are executed in 
a good stile, and well preserved. It is these pain 
tings, which are repeated in many other places in 
Switzerland, that speak to the eyes of the most il- 
literate, which tend so effectually to preserve the me- 
mory of these important transactions. Another 
" temple was lately erected, still more spacious than that 
J have seen, at the place where Gesler fell: but that 
Thad not time to visit. A good statue of Tell, lead- 
ing his son by the hand, stands in the market place 
cf Altorff now before me, on the very spot where 
he <tocd when he fhot the arrow ; and a beautiful 
