£92. the traveller. No. 1¥: 3255 
isolated tower occupies the spot where his son was: 
placed. There is scarcely a town in Switzerland in 
which there are not some public monuments erected: 
to commemorate these events. And asmost of them 
eonsist of either paintings, or das reliefs, tolerably well: 
executed, they make a much deeper imprefsion on 
youthful minds, which have been previously awa- 
Kened to attend to them, by the animated, though. 
simple narratives of these events, by their parents 
round the social fire, than any historic narrative, drily 
made, could afford. To: this cause must be ascribed 
that strong enthusiasm for liberty, which hath ever so 
conspicuously marked the character of the Swifs ; and 
it certainly is to the recollection of the animating 
pleasure they all have felt from these sensations in. 
their early youth, which they no longer experience: 
in foreign countries, that we must ascribe that ar- 
dent desire to revisit their native country, which us- 
ually seizes the Swifs, when they have been long 
absent from it.—Happy people ! happy in the inno- 
eence which the want of affluence so naturally in- 
spires ! Long may the vices which wealth engenders, 
be banifhed from thy humble abodes ! and mayest thou: 
never experience that giddy intoxication, which too 
much prosperity with such inevitable certainty en« 
“genders, the fatal forerunner of misfortune ! 
