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once more repofing myfelf under the roof of 
my worthy friend Slaber. 
I fhail enter into no particulars refpedling 
the produ(riions of the diiTerent cantons, their 
ftate of cultivation, and other objeds of which 
I have aU'eady treated. I fhall confine myfelf, 
in the few obfervations I have to make, chiefly 
to the charader of the inhabitants, and their 
mode of Uving ; digrefling only for a moment 
to notice an excellent fpring of hot water 
which the company has converted into a 
bathing place for the fick, and which is 
therefore called the hot-baths. It w^as there 
that Boers, in a ftate of defpair, and aban- 
doned by his phyficians, recovered his 
health. How gladly would I have eredted 
a temple upon this fpot, which had been 
the means of faving a valuable friend whom 
death had fo long perfecuted ! I would have 
furrounded it w^ith a fence, and have had 
it deified. In imitation of the charming 
and magick ages of mythology, thofe days of 
profound and ingenious fidion, when rivulets, 
brooks, and fountains, had each their fecret 
fymbols, and called to mind fome beneficent 
deity, I would have offered to the naiad of 
thefs 
