the city. The public granaries are also well furnished. This is done at the expense of government, to provide against seasons of scarcity, during which its good effects have invariably been experienced.

The Arsenal is extremely well furnished both with cannon and small arms. It appeared indeed to be a larger and better arranged depot for the matériel of modern warfare than even that of Berne. The collection of plate and chain armour, heavy maces, ponderous battle-axes. and two-handed swords, is well calculated from its extensiveness and variety to interest the military antiquary. They preserve in this magazine a cross-bow and an arrow, which are affirmed to be the very same with which William Tell shot the apple from off the head of his son. The bow is a small and homely piece of workmanship, bearing however (as compared with similar articles preserved at Berne and Lucerne) strong marks of contemporaneousness with the date of the romantic exploit to which it is said to have been instrumental. But on asking the person who shewed it to us, what were the proofs of its having been Tell's, we could get no other answer than that such was the tradition, which though doubtless very good authority for the genuineness of a saint's bones is not quite sufficient for that of a peasant's weapons. Besides, in the absence of positive evidence, probability itself is against the supposition that Zurich should have acquired such a relic, seeing that she did not join the confederacy till nearly 50 years after the first blow had been struck for Swiss Independence.

The militia of the canton amounted in 1781, to 25,781 infantry, 1025 artillery, 886 dragoons, and 406 chasseurs; in all 28,235 effective men. Coxe.

Let Zurich then check the empty boast of possessing the Bow and Arrow of Tell, which, if they exist any where, are more likely to be found in the arsenal of one of the forest cantons, where they ought to be preserved. A city so honourably known for having been the first in Switzerland to throw off the fetters of Papal Superstition, and which still treasures up in its valuable libraries the literary remains of a Zuingle and a Bullinger, may safely abandon every doubtful claim to secondary distinction.

In consequence of the reputation which Ulric Zuingle gained by his preaching at Glarus and at Einsidlin, (even before the public sale of indulgences by authority of Leo X, and consequently before Luther commenced his career of opposition to those abuses) against vows, pilgrimages, offerings, and all "the fraudful engin'ry of Rome,” this intrepid and zealous yet mild and magnanimous Reformer was called to Zurich in 1518. Conformably to his principles the Council issued an Edict addressed to the Beneficed Clergy having the cure of souls, in which it enjoined them not to preach anything but what was capable of being proved by the Word of God. Such was the reliance which the Government of Zurich placed on Zuingle's wisdom and moderation, that it allowed of public disputations being held on a series of articles which he had himself framed. It was an advantage of the greatest importance to the cause of religious reform that the soul of every man should thus have been left

"Emancipated, unoppressed,

"Free to prove all things and hold fast the best."

The first of these controversies terminated in favour of Zuingle. The State supported and encouraged him. At

the finish of the second disputation he gained so many converts to the "Truth as it is in Christ Jesus," which he put with no less ingenuousness than force to the test of Scripture, that the Mass was abolished and the Images were removed from the churches. The third controversy added still more to the credit of the Swiss Reformer. At the fourth, in 1524, no one having presented himself ou the part of the Roman Catholics, the Reformation was received concurrently and freely by both magistrates and people.

Notwithstanding the great antiquity of Zurich, and its being reckoned in consequence of the flourishing state of its manufactures, the richest of the thirteen cantons, there is nothing either with respect to its size or architectural features, that renders the city worthy of particular remark. The streets are for the most part narrow and ill pierced; the houses with few exceptions small and of ordinary appearance; and the ground on which they are built is very unequal.—Yet there is a pervading neatness and comfort in the place, as well as a shew of activity and industry in its inhabitants, that, combined with the beauty of its situation, point it out as an agreeable spot to fix upon for at least a temporary residence. Besides, it ingratiates itself with our English feelings, awakening in us sentiments of Protestant gratitude, as the asylum where, through the intervention and recommendation of the learned and estimable Bullinger, a most hospitable reception was given to many English Nobles, Clergy, and Gentry, exiles from their native country for conscience-sake, when the vindictive stroke of persecution

"Ting'd the red annals of Maria's reign."

In the course of a walk through one or two good streets, to a part of the fortifications, we were shewn the house once inhabited by the amiable and ingenious, but too enthusiastic and visionary Lavater. church of St. Peter, of which he was

It is opposite the pastor, and under the portico of which he was sitting when wounded by a soldier, on the day that the French in 1797 took possession of the city.

The view of the lake* from the bastion of La Katze is enchanting beyond expression. The coup d'œil from this rather elevated point, embraces those varied and striking objects which, displayed on the most extensive scale, complete the formation of a magnificent picture. You look on a foreground composed partly of the ramparts and towers, and partly of the handsome gardens and respectable habitations which decorate the outskirts of the place. Glancing over these the eye rests with pleasure on "the breezy ruffled lake," which

"Chast and pure as purest snow

"Ne lets her waves with any filth be dyed.

Its broad surface, enlivened with sailing boats, is girdled round by a triple range of hills. The other constituents of the nearer distance are, on your right, the richly wooded promontory of Kilchberg, backed by the gloomy Albis; on the left Kreuz, Zollikon, and Küssnacht present themselves on their gently sloping coast. On both sides, the borders exhibit a bright and almost uninterrupted

• The lake of Zurich is ten leagues long and one and a half league wide. Its greatest depth is 100 toises: its surface, 1279 feet above the level of the sea. Eighteen parochial villages, surrounded by a multiplicity of separate dwellings, extend on both shores, and contain about 35,000 inhabitants.-Ebel.

succession of vineyards and groves, verdant meadows dotted with pleasure-houses, and lovely bays profusely adorned with villages, several of which also appear on the higher ground with most delightful effect. In the offskip these sweet shores are commanded by the rugged chains that divide the canton of Zurich from those of Schwytz and Zug. Above them, in still remoter distance, soars another and a loftier pile, displaying a long line of snowy ridges and naked peaks, whose peculiar configuration distinguishes them as respectively belonging to Glarus, Uri, Underwalden, and Berne. In the smiling charms of objects close at hand, a happy manifestation of the industry of Man improving upon the bounties of Nature-in the expansive bosom of the pellucid waters-in the graduated rise of the mountains, from the gently elevated, the majestically grand, and the terribly sublime-in the union of these I beheld a scene, of which the language even of enthusiasm can give no idea; but from the retina of my remembrance its images will not easily be effaced.

Aug. 15.-Early in the afternoon we left Zurich for Schaffhausen. Our voiturier, who had been a military man, took the pains of very clearly pointing out to us the respective positions of the French and Russian armies, on the 25th of September, 1799, when Massena defeated Korsakoff, as the latter on his retreat from Zurich was directing his march upon Eglisau for the purpose of crossing the Rhine. It was during the multiplied operations and fluctuating issues of that astonishing campaign, in which Italy and Switzerland were at one and the same time the theatre of war, and when the uppermost