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Travels in Switzerland and in the country of the Grisons, in a series of letters to William Melroth, esq. From William Coxe ... With an historical sketch and notes on the late revolution / [William Coxe].

William Coxe

Date:: 1801

Credit: Travels in Switzerland and in the country of the Grisons, in a series of letters to William Melroth, esq. From William Coxe ... With an historical sketch and notes on the late revolution / [William Coxe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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LETTER 4. St. Galien—Canton of Appenzeh July 26. ]| WRITE to you from the midft of the Alps* under the fhade of a grove of beeches, while a clear dream of water, flowing at my feet, forms a natural cafcade down the rock. I have juft made a hearty meal upon fome bread and cheefe; a moil delicious repaft, after walking fix miles over the mountains of Appenzeh We this day quitted St. Gallen, and walked to Appenzeh The country is Angularly wild and romantic; confiding of a continued feries of hills and dales, vallies and mountains, the tops of which are crowned with mod luxuriant pas- tures. I could not have conceived it podible, without having been an eye-witnefs, that any didrict within the fame compafs could have ex- hibited fo numerous a population ; the hills and vales being thickly ftrewed with hamlets, feat- tered at a fmall didance from each other. The piflurefque mountains, the foreds, the currents which we eroded, over bridges refembling thofe I have obferved in fome of the bed; landfcapes, added to the beauty of the feenes, and diverfified

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