a Traveller on tie. Glacier of Buet. ug. 



We It ft Servoz a few minutes alter the difmal ceremony, 

 and arrived about midnight at Geneva, having our minds 

 and hearts tilled with the events of our journey. 



One of the dangers to which travellers are cxpofed in thefe 

 mountains mull be already known to my readers ; but this 

 is not the only one, and a fimple enumeration of the acci- 

 dents which have taken place in the courfe of a few years 

 back, will exhibit others which may fometimes occur. 



One of our countrymen, young and aclive, having ven- 

 tured without a guide, and without proper flioes, to traverfe 

 the deep and rocky declivities which form the bafe of the 

 needle of Charmoz towards the glacier called Des Eois, was 

 precipitated into one of thefe ravines, and perifhed. 



A young inhabitant of Zurich having afcended to the 



or three weeks, when I thai] embrace my dear and beloved pupils, my 

 Rudy and my Sophia. It is ncedlefs to tell you that I travel on rcorj 

 and you may alfo guefs that I travel in company with a friend; for the 

 heart and mind never enjoy die moft beautiful afpefts of nature but wlitn 

 confeious that a living being fympathifes with us. Every thing beautiful 

 and fublime, in order that it may make a deep impreffion on the foul o£ 

 man, ought to be united with the enjoyment >>f love and friendfliip .... 



" Scarcely have you reached the canton of Fribourg when you lofe fiuho 

 of that opulence, civilifation, culture, and thofe natural beauties, whkti 

 dillinguifh the canton of Berne ; and the contrail is painful. 1 have fount! 

 here a confirmation of the opinion I long before entertained of the olct 

 government of Berne. However deficient it might be in many refpetfs, 

 it was inconteftably fuperior to all the other governments of Swiflerland. 



" In the hermitage (near t'libourg) there is now living an old he. ir.it 

 with a long white beard called Le Frer'e Jes Boh, a name given here to 

 hermits. ' Though pretty far advanced in years> he is ftill very frelli. He 

 ferved a long time as an officer in a Swifs regiment in the pay of Au- 

 flria. We were very much furprifedj when we afcended towards him? 

 to fee him coming {lowly to meet us acrofs the large hall, not in the drefs 

 •T:f a hermit, but in a hulf.ir uniform ; his fliori open red cloak, bordered 

 with fur, and his white breeches., formed a contra ft with his leng fnowy 

 beard. He received us with great kindnefs, ("poke to us in French and 

 German, complained a great deal of the depravity of the prefent age, and 

 told us that it was not fufheient to pray, it was neceffary to aft. &c. He 

 congratulated himfelf 01 the tranquillity rtf his life, his habitation being 

 at 3 d.ifiance from all buftle, and his ears being nffailed by no noiii , except 

 that occafioned by the fall of a neighbouring torrent, and the tinging of 



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