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GENEVA 



Genet did not return to France, but settled in 

 New York City, became a naturalized citizen, 

 and married the daughter of Governor George 

 Clinton. See illustration, in article WASHING- 

 TON, GEORGE. 



GENEVA, jene'va, distinguished as a theo- 

 logical, literary and scientific center, is a city 

 of Switzerland, the capital of the Swiss canton 

 of the same name. It is delightfully situated 

 in full view of the Alps, at the western ex- 

 tremity of Lake Geneva, where the River 

 Rhone issues and divides the town into two 

 portions. The upper town contains the homes 

 of its wealthy people, and many fine parks and 

 hotels; in the lower town, which is the seat of 

 trade, the poorer classes live. In the Place 

 des Alpes is an imposing monument to Duke 

 Charles II of Brunswick, who left 16,500,000 

 francs (nearly $3,300,000) to the city. Geneva 

 is the birthplace of the writer Rousseau, the 

 naturalists Charles Bonnet and the Pictets, the 

 humorist Topffer, the physicist De Saussure, 

 and the sculptor Pradier. In 1536, when 

 Geneva invited Calvin to make his home there, 

 it became one of the greatest strongholds of 

 Protestantism in Europe (see CALVIN, JOHN). 



The ancient ramparts have been removed 

 and many improvements introduced, for Ge- 

 neva is one of the principal entrances for 

 tourists into Switzerland. Its principal build- 

 ings are the Transition Cathedral of Saint Peter, 

 dating from 1124; the town hall; the academy, 

 founded by Calvin, with a library of 110,000 

 volumes and converted in 1873 into a uni- 

 versity; the magnificent theater, ranking next 

 in size to the Paris Opera; the Rath Museum 

 and the Fol Museum, with collections of 

 Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities; the 

 Athenaeum, devoted to the fine arts; and the 

 museum of natural history, containing De Saus- 

 sure's geological collection. The staple manu- 

 factures are watches, clocks, musical-boxes, 

 jewelry, gold and silver ornaments and^ scien- 

 tific instruments; of these the city produces 

 $10,000,000 worth annually. Population in 1910, 

 including suburbs, 125,520. 



GENEVA, LAKE, or LAKE LEMAN, the 

 largest lake in Central Europe, is partly in 

 Switzerland and partly in France. Its total 

 area is 223 square miles, of which only eighty- 

 three square miles belong to France. The 

 whole of the lake is neutral territory, however, 

 according to the terms of the Congress of 

 Vienna (1815). The River Rhone enters the 

 lake at the east, between Villeneuve and Saint 

 Gingolph, and flows through the city of Geneva 

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at the west. The lake is noted for the unusual 

 clearness and blueness of its waters, and is 

 surrounded by a mountainous region of great 

 beauty. On its shores are many famous re- 

 sorts, including Geneva, Lausanne, Ouchy, 

 Vevey and Montreux. Many thousands of 



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visitors annually flock to these. Near the 

 eastern end stands the Chateau of Chillon, 

 prison of Bonnivard, immortalized in poetry by 

 Lord Byron in The Prisoner of Chillon. Pleas- 

 ure steamers ply on the lake and a railway 

 line runs along its northern shore from Geneva 

 to Villeneuve. See an illustration, in article 

 CHILLON, page 1339. 



GENEVA, N. Y., a city in Ontario County, 

 noted for its extensive nurseries and green- 

 houses, which cover about 10,000 acres of land. 

 It is situated west of the geographical center 

 of the state, at the north end of Seneca Lake 

 and on the Seneca and Cayuga Canal, a branch 

 of the New York State Barge Canal (which 

 see). Rochester is fifty-two miles northwest, 

 Syracuse is fifty-two miles northeast and Buf- 

 falo is 120 miles directly west. The city is 

 served by the New York Central and the 

 Lehigh Valley railways. Electric lines connect 

 with cities east and west, and steamboats run 

 between Geneva and Watkins, thirty-six miles 

 distant. In 1916 a Federal estimate gave a 

 population of 13,711, an increase of 1,223 since 

 1910. 



The surrounding country is a rich agricul- 

 tural and fruit-growing district, and some of 

 the leading industrial establishments are de- 

 pendent upon its resources. The annual out- 

 put of one canning company, which employs 

 about 500 people, is $4,500,000, and that of a 

 cereal company is $3,000,000. Optical furnish- 

 ings, cutlery, steam boilers, motor boats and 

 stoves are among the important manufactures. 

 Geneva is the seat of the state agricultural ex- 

 periment station; of Hobart College, estab- 

 lished in 1822 by the Protestant Episcopal de- 



