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happened here, I was filled with reverence for the 

 little country I this day entered and beheld around me. 

 This, thought I, is truely claffic ground, net the fcene* 

 of fabulous, but of really great atchievenients, the 

 glorious confequences whereof, the preferit inhabitants 

 of the country, after more than four whole centuries, 

 enjoy in their full extent. 



In Altorf I left the horfe that had brought me hither 

 from Lugano, and proceeded on foot to the village 

 Fluelen, that Hands clofe upon the margin of the lake. 

 I had fent my baggage before me, and hired a fmall 

 vefTel to convey me to Lucern, which is lifuated at 

 the lower end of the lake. The paffage acrofs this 

 lake often proves dangerous, after failing only a couple 

 of leagues from Fluelen, by fudden gulls of wind, as 

 it is impoffible to land any where on account of the 

 perpendicular rocks that form the fhore. After palling 

 this diftance, however, there is good landing, though 

 not where one will, yet in feveral places, fome one of 

 which may be reached in a fhort time, if the people 

 are early aware of the threatening danger. 



About four leagues from Fluelen, a flat rock, riling 

 out little above the water, projects fomewhat into the 

 lake from the- fieep mountains on the right hand of the 

 lake. It was on this projecting rock that the brave 

 Tell leaped from the fliip in which he was carried away 

 as a prifoner, and climbed the pathlefs height, whereby 

 he refcued himfelf, and afterwards, by the effects of his 

 gallant deeds, gave liberty to his native land. On this 

 4pot is built a little open temple, in honour of this 

 champion of liberty, and bears the name of Tell's 

 chapel, The chapel is only inclofed towards the lake 



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