Chap. III. through the L o 
(in which they are imitated by the graver Sort of the 
Inhabitants) and Gowns which reach juft below their 
Knees. The Women wear their Petticoats very fhort, 
and Caps not unlike the young Scholars at Cambridge, 
with a Tin Girdle. We took alfo a View of the Mu- 
fceum of Dr. Platerus, where we met with many both 
natural and artificial Curiofities of Minerals, Stones, 
Metals, Animals preferv’d, i^c. The famous Phana- 
tick David George ended his Days in this City. We 
found divers Plants growing wild about Bqftl, the 
chief of which were, Scrophulariai Ruta canina didia, 
and Pajferina Tragi, among the Corn, Phalangium par- 
VO flare ramofms, Blitum minus album, among the Hed- 
ges, Cymbularia Italica hederacea, on the Town Walls 
near the Strasburg Gate, Stesbe major calyculis noH fpkn- 
dentibus, in the Grounds betwixt Frankenthal and Bafil, 
Folium montanum Lavendula folio, Confblida media Gene- 
venfis C? Cneorum Matthioli feu Tbymeloea minor Cordi. 
But of thefe and other Plants growing about Bafil, fee 
C. Bauhini Catalogue Plantarum. 
We went hence, Augufl the loth, towards Zurich, 
and in our Way, about a German League from Bafil, 
paired through AugT, fuppofed by Ambachius, to be 
the ancient Augufta Rauracorum of the Romans, where 
■We faw the Ruins of an Amphitheatre. We travelled 
afterwards in Sight of a wall’d Town upon the Rhine, 
and many Hills covered with wild Fir-trees, and palTing 
through Bruck, a pretty handfome well built, but fmall 
Town, lodged the fame Night at the Baths of Baden, 
about fix German Leagues from Bafil •, here we firft 
got Sight of fmall green Tree Frogs. Thefe hot Baths, 
about Sixty in Number, are not above half an Englifla 
Mile from Baden^ a City feated upon the River Uma- 
gus, on the Side of a Hill, famous for the general 
Meetings of the Swifs Cantons here. 
21. From hence we continued our Journey Augufta the 
iith, along the on one, and very fair Vine- 
yards on the other Side, to Zurich, another City be- 
longing to the Swifs Cantons, fcarce fo big, but much 
more populous than Baden. Its Fortification is extraor- 
dinary pleafant, near the Zurich-Sea or Lake, being di- 
vided by the River Limagus (which owes its Rife to this 
Lake) into two Parts, which are joined together by two 
Bridges, one for Foot-Palfengers, the other for Carria- 
ges, and very broad. The Houfes here, though of 
Timber and Clay, yet are well built, handfomely paint- 
ed, and lofty ; the Streets indeed are none of the 
broadeft, but very well paved, and the whole Body of 
the City enclofed with a ftrong Wall and many Out- 
works of Earth, after the modern Way; the River 
Sele (which below this City falls into the Limagus) ferv- 
ing for a Ditch on the South-fide. The Inhabitants, 
are Proteftants, much addided to Commerce, and gene- 
rally rich. What is worth a Traveller’s Curiofity here 
is, the Colour of the Zurick-Sea, which is green ap- 
proaching near that of Sea-water, thofigh it has not the 
Jeaft brackilh Tafte, to which in Sea- water this Colour 
is commonly aferibed. Finding afterwards the Water of 
the Rivers and Lakes near the Alps of the fame Colour, 
we could not attribute it to any other Caufe but the melted 
Snow of thofe Mountains, with which they are ('at leaft 
the higher Parts of them) covered for fix Months in 
the Year, which containing a nitrous Salt, may be fuffi- 
cient to give the Water this Colour, though not to affedf 
our Tafte. 
The Government of this City is adminiftred by two 
Councils, viz. The greater and the lejfer. The laft is com- 
pofed of fifty Members, viz. twenty four Tribunes, 
chofen by the twelve Tribes or Companies of the City, 
two out of each : Thefe they call the Twelvers, becaufe 
twelve of them have only their Share in the Govern- 
ment at a Time ; twelve Senators, viz. one out of each 
Company, chofen by the leffer Council, as Simler tells 
us, but according to our Information, by the great Coun- 
cil, fix Members more taken indifferently out of the 
Commonalty, and thofe likewife chofen by the great 
Council, as we were credibly told; but according to Sim- 
ler, by the lejfer ; four Tribunes and two Senators cho- 
fen from among the Gentlemen, and ivio Burgomaflers 
defted by the great Council of 200. Half this Council 
VoL. II. NumBo CXIVa 
■Count R ifes, Wt. 65 J 
govfefns By Turns, and that part which rule, is ftiled 
Concilium novum-, Or the new Council, a,s that which 
goes out is called Concilium vetUs, or the bid Council; Yet 
if any Decree be to be made, the fame is dated in the 
Prefence of both, for which Reafon the whole Fifty 
meet once a Week; For the reft, one half of this 
Council is chofen every half Year, viz. at Midfummer 
Chrijimas,/ 3 .nd as Concilium vetus goes Out, it 
choofes the Concilium novum, compofed for the moft 
Part of the fanne Perfons that were chofen before.. 
The whole Council of Fifty determines civil Actions 
('though Simler fays, no more than eight feleCted out of 
their Number) as the new Council judges in criminal 
Cafes alone. The greater Council is compofed of 200 Per- 
fons, viz. Twelve out of each Tribe, making in all forty- 
four, eighteen chofen by the Gentlemen, from among 
themfelves, twenty-four Twelvers, iouv Tribuni nobilium, 
two Senatores nobilium, the fix before- mentioned chofen 
by the great Council out of the People. 'Thefe choofe 
Governors (call’d by them Landvoghts) and are always 
confulted upon any Emergency, which relates to the whole 
Commonwealth. They alfo chufe four ProcOnfuls out 
of the twenty-four Mafters of the Companies ; arrd 
two Treafurers, either out of the Number of the 
twelve Senators, dr of the twelve Tribunes of the nevo 
Council. 
Augufl 12. In our Way from Zurich to Schaffioaufen 
we pafs’d by a Catarafl or Water-fall of the Rhine, 
which is fo dangerous for the many Rocks that lie 
under Water, that the VefiTels muft unload here, and by 
the Way found the Crohus fylvaticus purpureus vermis, 
the Hepatica nobilis, and Vlmaria major five Barba capri, 
growing wild. The City of Schaffhaufen is fituate up- 
on the River Rhine, over which is a Bridge, half of 
Wood, half of Stone, and fo are moft of the Houfes, 
very well built ; efpecially in the two . great Streets, 
which are handfomely paved. The Citizens of this 
Place, as well as of Zurich, wear Swords conftantly : 
Thofe of the firft being divided into twelve Companies, 
each of thefe elefl two Tribuni Plebis, and thefe twenty- 
four make up the leffer Council, having each a yearly 
Allowance of fifty-twoE/mW,and nine Meafures of Corn. 
The great Council is compofed out of thofe twenty- 
four, and fixty more, {vizf) five . chofen out of each 
of the Tribes. Thefe eled every Year twO Burgomajiers, 
two Treafurers, one ProconftiJ, and one Mdilis, but 
for the moft part the fame Perfons : A Father and Son, 
or two Brothers, cannot be chofen at the fame time into 
this Council. 
From hence we travelled to Conflance, Augujl the 1 3th, 
a free imperial City, in a fmall Plain near the Rhine, at 
the End of the Boden $ia, or Lake of Conflance, known 
anciently under the Names of Lacus Brigantimis, and 
Lacus Acronius, over which is laid a very long Brido-e, 
part of Wood, and part of Stone : The Streets here 
are very regular and handfome, and the Buildings of 
Stone. But what makes this Place moft famous is the 
Council that was held here, 1417. in which the Doc- 
trine of John Bus was rejeded, and he condemned to 
the Fire. It is very ftrong by Situation, having the 
Lake on one, and the Fens on the other Side, but its 
Fortifications are very old and inconfiderable. 
22. Augufl 1 5. We pafifed over the Lake in a Boat, to 
the City of Lindaw (in Sight of the ftrong Town of 
Oberlingen) fituated in the Middle of the Lake, and fur- 
rounded by its Waters on all Sides, being join’d to the 
Continent by a Bridge of two hundred and ninety Paces 
long, one half of which, is of Stone, the other, viz. that 
to the Town-fide, of Wood, fo that it may be taken 
down in Cafe of Necefiity. This Place, befides its na- 
tural Strength of Situation; is fortified with ftrong Bul- 
warks, and Stakes driven into the Ground to prevent the 
Approach of any Boatl It is for the moft part handfomely 
built, and the Streets are adorned with Fountains, yet 
thefe laft are not fo fpacious, or their Buildings fo ’lofty 
as at Conflance : It has on one Side a double Wall, be- 
tween which is enclofed a large Space of Ground planted 
with Vines, which produce commonly, as we are told, 
about three hundred Englifh HogOieads per Annum. 
They have eight Villages belonging to their Jurifdidlion. 
