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GRISLY Srens, among Herbalifts, dejote thin, flat, -fkin- 
ny feeds.: 
“GRISOLA, in Ornithology. See Muscicara Grifola. 
GRISOLLES, in Geography, a town of France, in the 
department of the Upper Garonne, and chief place of a can- 
ton, in the diltri& Caitel-Sarrazin. The place contains 202 Ss 
and the canton 6477<4nhabitants, on a territory of 1324 
kiliometres,.in 12 communes. 
RESON, one of the f{maller Grenadines, fituated be- 
tween Diamond iflandand Cariacou. It has no frefh water, 
and is uninhabited. 
See Viverra Vittata. 
Grisons, in Geography, a people in alliance with the 
Swifs, forming three leagues, viz. the G eague, the 
league ef God’s houfe, and the league of the ten juri/didtions, 
t common- 
do not interfere with the 
general policy of the whole republic, or the articles of the 
particular league of which they forma part. The country 
whi inhabit is bounded on the N. by the canton of 
Glarus, from which it is feparated i 
the high 
. a 
by a chain of mountains, 
{t point of which is the ** Calendar,’”? and the coun- 
the Oftrogoths, who governed it by dukes. About the 
fixth century it became fubjeét to the Franks, and in the 
ninth was unite many fe 
They alfo agree to favour 
one another, to guarantee one another’s privileges, &c. Of 
all the conititutions in Switzerland, that of the Grifons is 
the moft democratic, as their fubordinates are totally in- 
-dependent of one another with regard to their parti 
police. connection between the three leagues is main- 
y means of an annual diet, of the c fs, and 
the three chiefs. The diet i eautien 
the houfe 
age. The 
‘Septem 
. 
dict aflembles annually 
at Ilants, Coire, and Da 
vos, 
fitting three w ea 
eeks or a month, 
the dict, in the communities at large ; for in all offices 
of i e, fuch as ing war, making peace, 
enacting laws, co’ alliances, and i 
con- 
thofe points, concerning which they have 
deputies either have. politive ities toa’ their con- . 
or refer 
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no inftructions, to the decifion of the refpedtive communities; 
fo that in effect the fupreme power conttitutionally refides in 
the body of the people, and not in their reprefentatives at 
the diet. The three chiefs have no fuffrage, when th 
munities fend their inftruétions, becaufe t are not repre- 
fentatives; but in all cafes which are either not referable, 
or afterwards fubmitted to the communities, the in 
e fame manner as the deputies. ‘The deputies receive for 
their attendance a {mall falary from the public treafury, 
which never exceeds 5s. a day. .The ariftocratical party is 
ftrengthened by the power dele i 
is an aflembly formed by the t 
ties from each leag Thi 
votes of the feveral communities, relative to the queltions 
referred to their deliberation at the laft diet, and to commu- 
nicate to each the refult of the general decifion, The three 
es members of the congrefs; 
meetin 
are taught to 
there is a Latin femina 
iltriGts, the minifters of which affembl 
