30 on the HigUai^ds. Sept. 5. 



rye, nor oats, nor fruits ; where the soil neither produces 

 hemp, nor flax, nor oil, not even potatoes j in these wild 

 places which nature had devoted to solitude and deserti- 

 on, what a prodigy is it to see the mountains covered, even 

 to the top, with houses which seem to form a continued 

 village without bounds I so near do they approach to each 

 other. 



*' Appenzel, itself, which, considering the nature of the 

 country, and its position, ought only to present a few 

 straggling and miserable hamlets, is a beautiful burgh, 

 the greatest part of the houses in which are painted, and 

 whose inhabitants live at their ease. 



" This magnificent burgh seems to be separated from 

 the rest of the universe. Nature has fhut up the avenues 

 to it. The communication is such that it can only be 

 approached by means of woodden stairs fixed to the rock. 

 Neverthelefs, independent of a numerous population, the 

 inhabitants are well clothed, well fed, and the inns well 

 served." 



Will any one wlio knows the Highlands of Scotland 

 pretend to say, that it does not pofsefs natural advantages 

 infinitely beyond what the canton of Appenzel enjoys * 

 Yet if freedom and judicious laws have been sufficient to 

 clothe these barren and inacefsible hills with habitations, 

 and to make the people live there in chearful affluence, 

 what might not a small fliare of the same political wisdom 

 effect in the last 5 — with the poet we may well say of this, 



Tliac all is ihc g h 01 'indu3t:y. 



But if government fliall bind the hands of the vigorou^^, 

 and thus dry up the veiy sources of aiiiuence, is it pof- 

 sible to avoid execrating the power that is exerted, not to 

 encourage industry, but to rcprefs it; — not to prefect the 

 people, but to anncy them ; — not to inv te inhabitants to 

 -add to our populaticn, our strengh, and our wealth, but ta 



