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quU famenefs, until the recurrence of a fimilar 



occafion* 



This troubled momeat of fcramble and 

 confufion called to my remembrance a fcene, 

 not unlike it, but upon a far greater fcale, 

 which I had witneffed at Geneva, at the time 

 when the French general Montefquiou, after 

 taking the town of Chamberry, marched his 

 army agalnft that city. This was a period 

 of uncommon intereft, and it has ftamped an 

 indelible impreffion upon my mind. Having 

 made a long tour through Holland, the Pays- 

 bas-v Germany, Switzerland, and Savoy, my 

 brother and fifter, and myfelf had propofed 

 making the vicinity of Geneva our refting- 

 place, during the autumn months, and, with 

 this view, we had taken up our refidence at 

 the village of Copet, near that city, in a cot- 

 tage, built upon the very brink of its enchant- 

 ing lake. 



From our windows we, at once, com- 

 manded, perhaps thegrandeftlandfcape,and the 

 fublimeft pidure in nature. An expanfe of 

 water thirty-fix miles in length, fix in breadth, ^ 



