Copy 1, Volume 1
Letters from Italy, describing the manners, customs, antiquities, paintings, etc. of that country, in the years MDCCLXX and MDCCLXXI, to a friend residing in France / by an English woman [i.e. Lady Miller].
- Anna, Lady Miller
- Date:
- 1776
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Letters from Italy, describing the manners, customs, antiquities, paintings, etc. of that country, in the years MDCCLXX and MDCCLXXI, to a friend residing in France / by an English woman [i.e. Lady Miller]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Pais de Gex. Nyon. Beacons* [ 12 ] All yeflerday’s journey was through a moft beautiful country (till we came to Little France, or the Pais de Gex; of which country, fo much talked of by our news-writers, I fhall by and by attempt a defcription). From Norges to another good town called Nyon the road continues the whole way on the borders of the Lake ; and on the other fide the road, as far as the eye can reach, nothing appears but a rich foil, all under tillage, and planted with extenfive orchards of apples, pears, cherry and walnut trees, growing at not more than fifteen yards diftance from each other. Agriculture is certainly in a ftate of great perfection in this part of Switzer¬ land. Here are confiderable fields of buck wheat and lucerne, as well as of various other kinds of artificial graffes. The Swifs have a contrivance for fpread- ing the alarm on the appearance of the enemy, which has a pretty and an odd effeCt to the view : they are beacons, and are](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30532899_0001_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
