Chap. IIL through SwissErLAND, S9^ 
Jcription of fbe T^own of the Places moft worthy of Notice thereP together ^ith the Manners^ 
CuftornSj and Government of the Inhabitants. 26. j 4 ?i Account of Huningen, Brifac, and Strasbourg, 
‘with a '"particular Account of the Manner in ‘which the French made themf elves Mdfters of this lafi 
mentioned City. 27* An Account of the Fortrejsof Phillipsbourgj and its great Importance tothe Em^ 
pire. 2%. A Defer iption of the City and Bifooprick of Spire, and of the Country thereabouts. 29. A 
large, diflinB, and entertaining View of the Lower Palatinate, f the famous City of Heidelberg, 
and the Hifory of feme of the EleStors Palatine. 30 . Dhe pleafant and delightful Country between the 
loft mentioned City and Franefort ^ ‘with other Pemarks and Obfervatiens. 31. The like Defeription of 
■ theCity andEleBorateoflsA.Qniz, ‘with a clear Account of the Revenues, Strength, and Trade of that 
Country. 32. A large and curious Account of the City and Eledlorate ^’Cologne, of the Cities of DnU 
feldorpe, Keyferfwart, and^tldi. 33 . Obfervaiions made by the Author in his Journey through the 
Dutchy of Cl'eves, the To‘wn of Nimeguen, and other Places in the Low-Countries. 
I. TT is fo common to write T ravels, that for 
one who has feen fo little, and as it were in 
Hafte, it may look like a prefumptuous AfFeftation to 
to be reckon’d among Voyagers, if he attempts 
to fay any Thing upon fo fhort an Excurfion, and con- 
cerning Places fo much vifited, and which are confequently 
fo well known : Yet having had Opportunities that do 
not offer themfelves to all that travel, and havingjoin’d 
to thofe a Curiofity alrnoft equal to the Advantages I 
enjoy’d, I fancy it will not be an ungrateful Entertain- 
ment, if I give you fome Account of thofe Things that 
pleafed me moft, in the Places through which I have 
pafs’d. But I will avoid faying fuch Things as occur in 
ordinary Books, for which I refer you to them. For 
as you know that I have no great Inclination to copy 
what others have faid, fo a Traveller has not Leifure, 
or a Difpofition fuited for fo dull an Employment. 
As I came all the Way from Paris to Lyons, I was 
amaz’d to fee fo much Mifery as appear’d, not only in 
Villages, but even in big Towns, where all the Marks 
of an extreme Poverty fhew’d themfelves both in the 
Buildings, the Cloaths, and almoft in the Looks of the 
Inhabitants ; and a general difpeopling, in all the 
Towns, was avery vifible Effed of the Hardlliips under 
which they lay. 
I need tell you Nothing of the Irregular, and yet mag- 
nificent Situation of Lyons, of the noble Rivers that 
meet there, of the Rock cut from fo vafl a Height 
for a Prifon, of the Carthufians Gardens, of the Town- 
houfe, of the Jefuits College and Library, of the fa- 
mous Nunnery of Sr. Peter, of the Churches, parti- 
cularly St. Irenee*&, of the Remnants of the Aque- 
ducts, of the Columns, and the old Mofaick in the 
Abbey Bene. 
The Speech of Claudius, engraven on a Plate of 
Erafs, and fet at the End of the low Walk in the Town- 
houfe, is one of the noblefl Antiquities in the World, ‘ 
by which we fee the Way of Writing and pointing in 
that Age very copioufly. The Shield of Silver of 
twenty two Pounds Weight, in which fome Remains of 
Gilding do yet appear, and that feems to reprefent the 
generous Action of Cap/o, in reftoring a fair Cviptive 
to a Celliherian Prince, is certainly the noblefl Piece of 
Plate that is now extant ; the emboffing of it is fo fine 
and fo entire, that it is indeed invaluable ; and if there 
were an infeription upon it, to put us beyond Conjec- 
ture, it were yet much more efcimable. 
A great many inferiptions are to be feen of the late 
and barbarous Ages, as Bonum Memorium, and Epita- 
phium hunc. There are twenty three Inferiptions in the 
Garden of the Fathers of Mercy, but fo placed, as fhew 
how little thofe who poifefs them either underfland or 
value them. I fhall only give you one, becaufe I made 
a little Reflection on it j though perhaps not too well 
grounded, becaufe none of the Criticks have confider’d 
it. The Infeription is this : 
B. M. 
Et Memorise Eternx 
SUTI^ ANTHIDIS, 
vixit annis xxv. M.XLD.F. 
dum Nimia Pia fuit, fadla eft Impia : 
Et Attio Probatiolo, Cecalius Calistio 
Conjux C? Pater, 
Et fthi vivo ponendum curavit„ 
Et fub afeid dedicaviu 
This muft be towards the barbarous Age, as appears 
hy xht Latin \n Nimia. But the Infeription feems 
fo extravagant, that a Man dedicating a Burial-Hone 
for his Wife and Son, and under which himfelf was Co 
be laid with Ceremonies of Religion, fhould tax hk 
Wife of Impiety, and give fo extraordinary an Ac- 
count of her becoming fo through an Excefs of Piety, 
that it deferves fome Confideration. 
It feems the Impiety was pubiick, otherwife a FIus- 
band would not have recorded it in fuch a Manner 5 
and it is plain, that he thought it arofe from an Excefs of 
Piety, i need not examine the ConjeClures of others 5 
but will chufe rather to give you my own, and fubmic 
it to your Cenfure. 
It feems to me, that this Sutia Anthis was a Chrillian 5 
for the Chriftians, becaufe they would not worlhip the 
Gods of the Heathens, nor participate with them in 
their facred Rites, were acciifed both of Atheifm and 
Impiety. This is fo often objeCled, and the Fathers in 
their Apologies have anfwered it fo often, that it were 
loft Labour to prove it. So this Wife of Cecalius Ca- 
litiio having turn’d Chriftian, it feems he thought he 
was bound to take fome Notice of it in the Infeription % 
But by it he gives an honourable Character of the 
Chriftian Dodlrine, at the fame Time that he feems 
to accufe it, viz. that through an Excefs of Piety his 
Wife was carried to it 5 fince a Mind, ferioufly pof- 
fefs’d with a true Senfe of Piety, could not avoid fal- 
ling under a Diftafte of Paganifm, and becoming Ghri- 
ftian. 
M Grenoble there is not much to be feen. The 
learned Mr. Charier has fome Manuferipts of confider- 
able Antiquity. In one of Vegetius de Re Militari, there 
is a clear Correction of a Paftage, that in all the print- 
ed Editions is not Senfe. In the Chapter of the Size 
of the Soldiers, he begins, Scio femper menfuram a Ma- 
rio Confule exattam. A is in no Manufeript, and Mario 
Confute is a Miftake for trium Cubitorum j for III. which 
are for trium, have been read for M j and C, which 
ftands for Cubitorum, as appears by all that follows, was 
by a Miftake read Confule. So the true Reading ot 
that Paftage is, Scio menfuram trium cubitorum fuiffe fem- 
per exaSlam. He ftiew’d me another Manufeript of 
about five or fix hundred Years old, in which St. JohPs 
Revelation is contain’d, all exemplified in Figures 5 and 
after that comes AEfop*^ Fables likewife, all defigned 
in Figures •, from which he inferr’d, that thofe, who 
defigned thofe two Books, valued both equally, and fo 
put them together. 
I will not deferibe the Valley df Bauphine, or enter- 
tain you with a Landskip of the Country, which de- 
ferves a better Pencil than mine, and in which the 
Height and Rudenefs of the Mountains, that almoft: 
ftiut it up, together with the Beauty, the Evennefs and 
Fruitfulncfs of the Valley, that is all well water’d with 
the River Liferre, make fuch an agreeable Mixture, that 
this vaft: Diverficy of ObJeCls at once fill the Eye, and, 
give it a very entertaining ProfpeCl. 
Chambery has nothing in it that deferves a lonor De- 
feription j zndi Geneva is too well known to be much 
infilled on. It is a little State j but it has To man/ 
good Conllitutions in it, that the greateft may joftly 
learn of it. The Chamber of Corn there has always 
two Years Provifion for the City in Store, and forces 
none but the Bakers to buy at a fixed Price 5 and fo it 
is both neceflary againft: any Extremities under which 
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