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-RÓW.

M,DCC,XCVIII.

MEQUE CANTONAD

LAUSANNE UNIVER UNIVERSITAIR

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PREFACE.

IN presenting to the Public a View of
Switzerland, a country of which so much
has been already written, it may perhaps
become me to clear myself from the charge
of prefumption. The defcriptive parts of
this journal were rapidly traced with the
ardor of a fond imagination, eager to feize
the vivid colouring of the moment ere it
fled, and give permanence to the emotions
of admiration, while the folemn enthusiasm
beat high in my bofom; but when the fen
fations excited by thofe views of majestic
grandeur had fubfided, I recollected, with
regret, that the paths which I had delighted

PREFACE.

IN prefenting to the Public a View of Switzerland, a country of which fo much has been already written, it may perhaps become me to clear myself from the charge of prefumption. The defcriptive parts of this journal were rapidly traced with the ardor of a fond imagination, eager to feize the vivid colouring of the moment ere it fled, and give permanence to the emotions of admiration, while the folemn enthusiasm beat high in my bofom; but when the fen fations excited by thofe views of majestic grandeur had fubfided, I recollected, with regret, that the paths which I had delighted