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fortune. His life, which might flow on in that kind of 

 animated leisure, which results from the exercise of acts 

 6f beneficence, is consumed in agitation and in fear. In- 

 dependent by his riches, he devotes himself to servitude, 

 and is tormented by chagreen. His sleep, which ought 

 to be pleasing, is troubled by envy and disquietude. He 

 writes, he cringes, he solicits, he tears himself from plea- 

 sure, and gives himself up to occupations that are not 

 suited to his taste ; he in a measure refuses to live during 

 forty years of his life, in order that he may obtain em- 

 ployment, dignities, marks of distinction, which, when he 

 obtains them he cannot enjoy. 



PLAN OF SWITZ-ERLAND IN RELIEF. 



In the city of Lucerne in Switzerland is to be seen one of 



the greatest curiosities of its kind in Europe ;— a plan, in 

 relief, of the countries adjacent to that lake so justly fa'- 

 med in Helvetic story. This surprising work, which dis- 

 covers alike the patriotic spirit and unsurmountable per- 

 severance of the undertaker, is carried on at the sole ex- 

 pence of general Pfiffer who; has been busied about it 

 upwards of twelve years, and still continues to augment it 

 from day to day. In the mean time he allows strangers 

 accefs to see it with the utmost politenefs. 



One there perceives, with surprise, the proportional 

 height and form of the rocks ; the declivity of the moun- 

 tains ; the kind of trees which grow there, according to' 

 the soil and the elevation ^ the direction of the roads and 

 of the paths j the course of the rivers which divide the 

 plains, the vallies, and the mountains are all marked. The 

 sinuosities of the rivulets, and the falls in cascades ; the 

 position of the lakes, cities, burghs, villages, and castles, 



