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Recourfe to a new and more fuccefsful Contrivance than 
the former j they had in vain tried to keep the People 
from the Serpents, they refolved to try next, whether 
it might, not be poffible to keep the Serpents from the 
People : And with this View, in the Midft of a dry 
Summer, they caufed the Bufhes to be fet on Fire that 
.grew upon the Mountain, by which that Generation 
of Serpents Was totally deftroyed j and the Grotto has 
remained ufelefs ever fince. 
Let us now take Leave of this Subjefl, and of the 
Travels of obferving only, that in a fubfequent 
Voyage, of his, he had the Misfortune to be taken by 
a French Privateer, and carried to Dunkirk^ where he 
fuffered a fevere Imprifonment, chiefly on the Score of 
his being a Proteftant, and having on that Account, as 
Book II. 
we obfefved before, been banilh’d But , his 
Friends haying applied themf^Ives to the King on his 
Behalf, he was immediately fet at Liberty, which con- 
tributed not a little to confirm that high Spirit of Loy- 
alty with which he had been polftfled, and of which 
he has left abundant Teftirnonies in his Works, by de- 
fending, as much as in his Power lay, the Charad:er of 
Lewis XIV. for though he bould not prevail upon him- 
felf to be a good Gatholick, yet a better Frenchman or 
a better Subject that great Monarch had not in all his 
Dominions ; which is a plain Proof that Lewis XIV. 
with all his Policy, ferved the Priefts much more than 
himfelf or his Family, in driving fo many Thoufands 
of Proteftants out of. his Territories. 
Bijhop B u R N E t’s ’Travels 
SECTION IV, 
T R A V E L s through Swifferlandy Part of Italy, fome Provinces of 
Germany, and the Low-Countries, in which are contained many cu- 
rious Hiftorical and Political Remarks on the Manners of the Peo- 
ple, the Forms of Government, and the State of the Gjuntries 
before mentioned. 
ExtraBed from the Eetters of DoBor Gilbert Burnet, (afterwards Bifhop of 
Salisbury) to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Efq-, written in the Tears 1685, 
and 1686. 
1 . The •wretched Condition of the Country bet'ween Paris and Lyons ; Antiquities obfervable in thofe Parts, 
.with fome literary and critical Remarks. 2. A large Defeription of the City oj Geneva, of the Man^ 
tiers and Ciiftoms of the Inhabitants, and of the Form and Maxims of Government in that little Repub^ 
lick, 3. A Defeription of the City and Canton of the Manners of its Inhabitants, their Riches 
and Indufiry, the Modefly of their Women, and the martial Virtues of their Men. 4. Fhe Reafons 
which induced the Swifs to overlook the Conqueji of the County ^Burgundy by the JVench, which has 
proved Jo much to their Detriment. 5. The Hiftory of the War between the Proteftant and Popifti 
Cantons in the Tear 1656, and the Means by which thofe Difputes were compromifed. 6. A mofi cu- 
rious and entertaining Account of the fcandalous Cheat and Impoflure of the Dominicans at Bern in 
1509. 7. A Comparifon between the Country of Fx2C[\cq and that of SwilTerland, with fome Re- 
marks upon the Government in both Countries, Jhewing that Tyranny will turn a Paradife into a De- 
fert, and Liberty ^ convert a Wildernefs into a Land of Plenty. 8. Of the miferable Bigottry of the 
People in the Popifs Cantons, from the Number of the Jefuits and Monks, and'' of their immenfe Wealth 
in thofe Countries. 9. Of the Canton oJ Xuxich, its Wealth, Forces, ManufaSiures, Trade, Fruga- 
lity in the Adminifiration oj Publick Affairs, and other Particulars. 10. Some general, ufeful and 
entertaining Remarks on the State of the Swifs Cantons, and a full Difplay oj the pernicious Spirit of 
Popery, li. A Defeription of the Country oj the Grifons, with an Account of the City ofCoxxQ, and 
of the CharaBer of the Bifhop at that Time. 12. A diflinB View of the Government of the Grifons 
the Manner of their obtaining their Liberty, the Divifion of their Country, and of their Diets, i''. Of 
Valteline, Chavannes, and Boxmio Territories which they poffefs in Italy, and how they obtained 
them 5 with nn Account of the Fertility of the Soil in the Valteline, and oj the Liberty that thefe Di- 
fir iBs enjoy under the Leagues. 14. Of the Maffacre in the Valteline, of the War that followed it, and 
of the State oj^ that Country. iS- Remains of the ancient Waldenfes, the true CharaBer and 
religious Sentiments of the Peopk fo called. 16. Of Chavannes, with an Account oj the mofi obfervable 
Villages upon the Road, of its Situation, the Fertility oj' the Soil, Eafinefs of the Government, Plenti- 
fulnejs oj Provifions, with an Account of the Nature oj their Wine, and the Manner how they make and 
preferve it, with other Particulars. 17. Some other Curio fities in this Part of the Country, together 
with an Af count of a Town and all its Inhabitants overwhelmed by the Fall of a Mountain. 1^. A 
Defeription oj' the Borromean Ifaiids, efeemed beyond Comparifon the mofi beautiful Part of Europe. 
19. A large Account of Lomhaxdy, and the City of Milan, with many curious Obfervations made hy the 
Author during his Stay in thofe Parts. 20. A ColleBion of ufefid, judicious, and entertaining Re- 
marks on j'everal Parts oj Italy, in which Care is taken to avoid repeating any thing contained in the 
jormer SeBion. 21. The fame SubjeB continued in relation to other Parts f Italy not hipherto men- 
tioned. 22. Conch f on of thofe Obfervations and Remarks, comprehending the CharaBers and Hi- 
f cries of fever al remarkable Perfins, written with great Impartiality and Freedom. 23. A Deferip- 
tion oj Marfeilles, and fome Reafons given for the extenfive Commerce and great Wealth of that Port, in 
Comparifon oj a?iy other in Frauce. 24, Some other Obj'ervations on the Country thereabouts. 25. De- 
feription 
