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tered towns which still attest the extent of their devastations. In 

 many places, however, they have lately been repaired ; and the 

 Enghsh traveller learns with delight that it is to the munificence 

 of his countrymen that the greater part of the smiling cottages 

 that adorn the hills around Inspruck, have been owing ; and that 

 the inhabitants acknowledge with the deepest thankfulness the gene- 

 rosity of that nation, which is happily renowned in the Tyrol, only 

 as healing the wounds which the ravages of war have occasioned. 



The Tyrolese war, after the peasantry had thus a third time, 

 without any foreign aid, delivered it from their enemies, present- 

 ed many most interesting occurrences, though they are of a more 

 melancholy description, as the overwhelming numbers of the 

 French, after the conclusion of the Austrian campaign, rendered 

 all farther resistance altogether hopeless, and the severity of the 

 season obliged the peasants to descend from the higher Alps, in 

 which they had so nobly maintained their freedom, into the val- 

 leys, where their valour was unavailing against the numbers and 

 discipline of their enemies ; but the limits of a sketch of this na- 

 ture, forbid our entering upon their narrative. 



