CHAP. IX.

Bex--Industry of the Inhabitants of this Country--Their Cottages and

Wandering Lives--Salt Springs--Aigle--Growth of

Corn--Villeneuve--Agitated State of the Lake--Labours of the

Inhabitants often destroyed by the Fall of

Rocks--Chillon--Clarens--Vevay--Magnificent View from its Church--Of

General Ludlow--Lausanne--Its singular Situation--Its Antiquity--Its

Cathedral--View from the Church-yard--Population and

Manufactures--French Manners prevail here--Gibbon--Pope Felix V. a

singular Character--Reformation--Morges--Festivity there--Rolle--Its

Spa--Country Seats--Delightful Scene from the Garden of its Castle

in the Evening--Nyon--Château de Pranqui--Joseph

Buonaparte--Vines--Swiss Artillery--Copet--Anecdote of Md^e. de

Staël--Versoi--Return to Geneva

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