PREFACE. 



THE editor of the prefent memoirs vifited Switzerland nine years af • 

 icr the death of Kliyogg, and fa\y many whj had known him. 

 The famed Livater, M. TchifFelli (rhe chief inftimtor of the celebrated 

 Economical Society of Berne,) the feventy n^erobers oi the.Philofophical 

 Society of Zurich, and the feveral hundred members of the Helvetic So- 

 ciety, with the father of rhe tv/o Mirabe.ius, Count Treffan, and Mr. Ar- 

 thur Young ; are additional vouchers to the public, for the exigence or 

 for the nrierits of the fuHjeft of the prefent hiftory. If the great New too 

 eame from the clafs of fmall landed proprietors ; if the fagacious Franklin 

 began by being a mechanic ; and (to hy nothing of Shakcfpear and a 

 crowd of others) if the Engiifti Brindley, the Scotch Fergufon, and the 

 German Duval and Ludwig, fprang frum the loweli clafs of peafants 5 

 why (hall wc doubt the reality of a Kliyogg ? Unaflifted nature can pro- 

 duce perfonages as extraordinary, as ihofe fometimes arifing under erre- 

 neous fyftcms of education. — The charafter then here reprefehted is not 

 feigned ; and yet it is as proper for contemplation, as if it had been ia- 

 vented ; for even the faults of Kliyogg arc inftrui^iveo 



The only point artificial about Kliyogg is his name. Though furratn- 

 ed Gouycr, andchriftened Jame^, he was by his countrymen called Klein- 

 jogg ; which is Ger.-nan for Liule James ; (the German for James being 

 taken from the Latin 'Jacohus,) When writing in French they l>y turns 

 however ftyie Hiiti Kleinjogg, Kliyogg, Klyiogg, and Klyogg. As fuch 

 ciiverfiry prevails among his countrymen, when defcribing him in a foreigt^ 

 language, a liberty in iavorof fimplicity ought perhaps to have been ufed 

 in the prefent work in Englilh, by calling him Kliog or Klyog, 



Dr. Hirzel, who firil made known this perfon to the public, wrote in 

 German ; which is ihe language of the largeft portion of Switzerland. He 

 was by office, firfl: phyfician to the Republic of Zurich, a member of its 

 Council, and occafionally Secretary to its Senate. His accounts were 

 publifl-ied at difTerenr periods, in proportion as the life of Kliyogg furniili- 

 cd the materials. — The principal of thefe accounts were gradually tranfl.i- 

 ted into French by a friend of the prefent edicor, a native of Bafie ; who 

 had a majority in a Swifs regiment in the pay of France, with the rank of 

 LieurenaritColoncI. Mr. Arthur Young,^ fince honorably known by his 

 publications, and lately made Secretary to the Englilh Board of Agricul- 

 ture ; flruck with the firll part of the French publication, procured for it 

 an EnghJ^y drefs ; atid anriexed it to one of his own works ; adding the 

 preface given in our appendix, wiih the notes ftill icraiued in their pla- 

 ces.— Mr. Young's own work, and a /«?■/ of the Englifh trannaiionip 

 were reprinted in New-'erfey in America, in 171^2. 



The Englilh franfl,.uon pu' lilhed under the liircdion of Mr. Young, 



h nonainally adopted liere for the pari to which it reb:e«. It required^ 



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