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ly under the Emperor, thata village of one 
hundred families did not pay more than 
two hundred florins per annum. 
Rheinfelded in Frickthal is the largelft, 
but not the moft povulous, of the four 
Walditatten, as they are termed. Its hitu- 
ation on the Rhine is very pleafant ; ; but 
its fine bridze and beautiful woo's of oak 
and beech thared the fate of ma ay other 
beauties of art and nature during the late 
wars. 
At Srein I enjoyed a charming view of. 
the Rhine from the windows of a very 
good inn. A few hours after brought 
me to Schaffhausen, where I met with 
the beft accommod tions at the Crown. 
The exifting curiofities of Schaffhaufen 
are the two ‘publi c libraries and the cabi- 
net of M. Arnmann, containing among 
other things a very beautiful fet of repre- 
fentations of fithes, plants. and int lects 5 - 
but its greateft curiouty, Ulrich Graben- 
mann’s bri ted, exits no more, having been , 
burnt (whether tnt dee tig ally or not, re- 
mains unbecided ) when the Archduke 
Charles obliged the French to retire from 
this neighbourhood. ; . 
It was reporied that the French intend- 
ed to erect a new fione bridge at Schaff- 
haufen from the rains of the former for- 
trefs at Hohentwiel, but this, like many 
of their projects, terminated only in 
words. 
‘© The peculiarity of Grubenmann’s 
bridges (ays an architect,) confilis inthe 
arch of beams indented in one anotiicr on 
both fides the bridge oa which the road- 
way is hung. In BAPAcHicy, as well as in 
bridge building, it has long been known 
that the ftrength of beams is increafed by 
indentation; but Grubenmatn greatly im- 
proved the invention. 
were formed of one balcony, conifiing of 
jagged pieces reaching from one dank to 
the other, and arched in the middle, they 
have fcarcely any but a perpendic, alar 
trefs on the land- Props 5 and it is this 
circumitance in Rae: ‘culir which gives 
Giubenmann’s mode of pridz ge-bu: I hing a 
decised pref-rence over every. other jnven- 
tion for pendant and elaitic w ae ; 
From Schaffhaulen to Zurch is but 
one day’s ealy journey either by the way 
of Eghfau or Winterthur, the former of 
which I chofe. At -Oerliken, a leazue 
and a half from Zurich, [found a ful- 
phurous bath. This neighbourhood bears 
Hill the traces of batr:es, pillage and 
burning, in the ruins of the houfes, anc 
the fill apparent defolation of different 
parts. It witneffed many bloody con- 
fits, between the French and the allies, 
\ 
As his bridges, 
and Prefent State of that Country. ~ 587 
and foffered, among other incalculable 
mifchiefs, a diminution of one-fixth in the 
quantity of its cattle. 
As you approach Zurich, the neigh- 
bouring hills rife into a fupendous am- 
phit heatre, floving gradually to the lucid 
arena of the Lake, which is every where 
berdered with vineyards and pafiure- 
grounds, dotted with alternate villas, vil- 
lrges, and towns, and pointed with the 
glittening {pires of the capital at one end, 
and the {nowy peaks of Schweitz and 
Glarus on the other. 
We reached our journey’ s end before 
five o’clock, and were enabled that even- 
iag to enjoy the prefpeét of the Lake and 
the chain of the Alos from the windows 
of the Raven, one of the principal inns, 
where we took up our ledging. 
“Lurich, a manufeGuring town, with 
11 or 12,0090 inhabitants, is beautifully 
fteated at the north end of the Jake that 
bears its name, and holds the firft rank 
among the cities of Helvetia with regard 
toarts, civilization, and influence. [It is 
defervedly entitled the Athens of Switzer- 
land. On the lift of its citizens ftand a 
Humber of great names in all ages diftin- 
guifhed by civil and military virtues, by 
talents aad information, by ufeful efta- 
blifhments, and by the pareft patriotiim. 
A. tae for the [ciences, a perfevering {nie 
rit, end a nebie ambitign, are the boats 
of a Zuricher, and are exemplified in the» 
characters of Geffher, Tobler; Burkli, Fu- 
efsli, Lavater, Wyfs, Heidegger, Efchers 
Hotze, and many other onnam ents of the 
lait and prefent century. Itisalfoa place 
ot confideration from its Hagel a of 
handkerchiefs, filks, ribbons, muflinsg 
and porcelain, 4 
In the late Revolution this toxn and 
its environs experienced more than any 
other part of Switzerland the horrors of 
war and the oppreffion of foreign troops. 
Its lofs is inca at fixteen millions of 
old French livres, fix cf which are [aid to - 
have been wafted in devafiation alone. Te 
was the chief military pofitien of all the 
armies, and might have prov ed defrudctive 
tothe ambitious projecis of France, had 
not the fame want of a united co-cpera- 
tion in the Allied forces. defeated the belt 
obje@s there as it hasdone alwavs. 
Near Zurich there was an anxiliary are 
my of Ruftans, who came far, very far, 
from the borders of AGa, and the immea- 
furable deferts of Siberia and Tartary. 
Many of the rude inhabitants of thofe re- 
mote climes now eyed with amazement the 
novel and grand. fpegtacle of Helvetia’s 
towering fuewy mountains, and were d<f 
ined 
