3. Other buildings fuch as fummer houfes, pavilions, and ruftic sheds, are difperfed over the grounds, and the ftables are conftructed in the form of a half demolished amphitheater. Several romantic bridges, rudely compofed of the trunks and bent branches of trees, contribute to diverfify the ruftic scenery.

4. Upon our arrival, we repaired to the principal cottage, where the princefs was ready to receive us. We expected to find the infide furnished in the fimple ftyle of a peafant's hovel; but was furprized to fee every fpecies of elegant magnificence, which riches and tafte could collect.

5. All the apartments are decorated in the most coftly man. ner; but the fplendor of the bath-room was peculiarly ftrik ing. The fides are covered from top to bottom, with fmal fquare pieces of the finest Drefden China, each ornamented with an elegant fprig, and the border and cieling are painted

with beautiful feftoons.

6. After we had furveyed all the apartments, we proceed. ed to an inclosure near the house, furrounded with large blocks of granit heaped one upon another, and fallen trees placed in the most natural and picturesk fhapes. From thence we repaired to the feveral cottages occupied by the children, each of which is fitted up in a different ftyle, but all with equal elegance, the whole exhibiting a ftriking contraft of fimplicity, and magnificence.

7. We next walked round the gardens, which are handfomely laid out. We then repaired to a Turkish tent of rich and curious workmanship, pitched in a beautiful retired field near the ftables. This tent belonged to the Grand Vizier, and was taken in the late war between the Ruffians and Turks. Under it was a fettee and a carpet spread upon the ground.

8. Here we ftaid converfing until the dufk of the evening, when the princefs led us through the house to a small fpot of rifing ground, where we were fuddenly ftruck with a moft fplendid illumination. A ruftic bridge, confifting of a single arch over a broad piece of water, was ftudded with several thousand lamps of different colors.

9. The reflection of this illuminated bridge upon the water, was fo ftrong as to deceive the eye, and gave to the whole the appearance of a brilliant circle fufpended in the air. The ef fect was fplendid beyond defcription, and greatly heightened

by the gloom of the foreft in the back ground. While we were admiring this delightful fcene, a band of mufic ftruck up at a little distance, and amufed us with an excellent concert.

10. We were led from this enchanting spot, across the illu. minated bridge to a thatched pavilion, open at the fides and fupported by piliars, ornamented with garlands and twisted feftoons of flowers. We found within a cold collation, and fat down to a table covered with all forts of delicacies, with the most coftly wines, and every fpecies of fruit which nature and art could furnifh.

II. The evening was pleafant, the fcenery delightful, the fare delicious, and the company in fine fpirits; for who could be otherwife, when every circumftance which the taste and ingenuity of our fair hoftefs could invent, confpired to heighten the entertainment.

12. The collation being ended, we rose from table, which I concluded to be the clofe of the entertainment, but was agreeably disappointed; the gardens were fuddenly illuminated; we ranged about as fancy dictated, and were gratified with the found of wind inftruments, played by perfons difperfed in different parts of the garden.

13. Repaffing the bridge, we returned to the cottage, when the two eldest daughters of the princefs, in Grecian dreffes of a moft elegant fimplicity, performed a Polifh and a Coffac dance; the former ferious and graceful, the latter comic and lively. The eldest fon, then eight years of age, danced a hornpipe with wonderful agility, and afterwards, a dance in the manner of the Polish peafants with much humor.

14. It was now past two in the morning; we feemed as if we could stay forever, but as there must be an end of all fublunary joys, we took our leave, expreffing our gatitude in language unequal to our feelings. I am fatisfied, that it feldom falls to the lot of any perfon, twice in his life, to partake of fuch a pleafing entertainment.

SOURCE OF THE DANUBE.

THE Danube, one of the largest rivers in Europe, has its fource in the court yard of a palace belonging to the prince of Furstenberg in Swabia. It proceeds from fome fmall fprings bubbling from the ground, and forming a bafon of clear water about thirty feet fquare, from which iffues a

a little brook which is the Danube. Continually augmented by additional ftreams from the mountains of Switzerland, it fwells to a mighty river, on which fhips of war may fail, and fleets engage in battle. It pours its waters into the Euxine

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FALL OF THE RHINE.

THE Rhine has its fources among the Alps, in the country of the Grifons. At Lauffen, is a cataract, where the water tumbles over a rock and falls perpendicularly about fixty feet. A scaffolding is erected within the very fpray of the fall, where the traveller may view this interefting fcene. A fea of foam rushing down the precipice-a cloud of spray rifing and spreading to a distance-the roar of the tumbling wa ters and the magnificence of the scenery furpass the powers of defcription.

2. On one fide of the river is the castle of Lauffen, upon the edge of the precipice and projecting over the river; near it is a church and fome cottages; a cluster of ruftic dwellings near the fall; in the back ground, rocks clothed with vines or tufted with hanging wood; a beautiful hamlet upon the fummit, fkirted with trees; the body of water which feems to rush from the bottom of the rocks; two crags lifting their heads from the midst of the cataract, their tops fprinkled with fhrubs, and refting fecure on their bafe, mocking the force of the raging current.-Such are the objects which add beauty and grandeur to this ftupendous fcene.

LAKE OF CONSTANCE.

1. THE Lake called Conftance is one of the boundaries between Germany and Switzerland; fifteen leagues in length and fix in bredth. It is of an oval form, its waters of a greenish hue, and its borders confift of gently rifing kills. It is deeper in fummer, than in winter, being fwelled by ftreams from the melting fnow of the Alps. It abounds with fish, and especially with a large fpecies of trout larger than a falmon, of a deep blue color on the back and fides, and beneath of a filvery white. In fpring and fummer, the flesh is of a fine red color, and very delicate food.

2. Near this Lake is the town of Conftance, in which is ftill feen the room in which fat the council which condemned, the take John Hufs, the reformer. Here is alfo the dun

geon in which he was imprifoned, and the ftone to which he was chained. But reafon has triumphed over bigotry, and this place is now the feat of freedom and liberality.

BRIDGE OF SHAFFHAUSEN.

1. THE Rhine at Shaffhaufen is rapid and had destroyed. feveral stone bridges of the firmeft conftruction. A carpen ter of Appenzel offered to throw a bridge of a fingle arch over the river, which is near four hundred feet wide. The magiftrates however would not permit the attempt, but required that it should confift of two arches, with a pier in the middle. The architect obeyed, but constructed the bridge in fuch a manner as to render it uncertain whether the pier aids in fupporting the bridge. His defcendants fay that it does not ; but more probably it does.

2. This is a hanging bridge of two arches; one of a hundred and ninety feet chord, the other of a hundred and feventy two feet. The road is not over the arches, but on a horizontal line, fufpended from the timbers above. The bridge trembles under the feet of the traveller, but has ftood a great number of years, and fuftains the heaviest loads.

MODEL OF SWITZERLAND.

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1. General Pfiffer, a native of Lucern, has formed a model of the most mountainous parts of Switzerland, representing in miniature all the mountains, hills, valleys, lakes, rivers, roads, cottages and the like. The compofition is a mixture of clay, lime, charcoal, a little pitch, and a thin coat of wax. is painted fo as to reprefent every object as it exists in nature. Even the different forts of trees are diftinguifhed, as well as the ftratums of rocks, which have been fhaped on the spot and compofed of granit, gravel, calcarious ftone or fuch other fubftances as compofe the real mountains.

z. This model contains one hundred and forty two compartments, of different forms and fizes, all numbered, and they may be taken apart and put together with as much ease as a diffected map, ufed by children in learning geography. It comprehends a fpace of about fifty five miles by thirty three. The dimenfions of the model are twenty feet by twelve; each foot of the model representing about two miles and a quarter of territory. An inch of elevation in the model represents about nine hundred feet of elevation in a mountain, and the

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highest point of the model is about ten inches, reprefenting mountains of nine thousand feet high, above the level of the lake of Lucern which is the central object.

3. The general began this curious work at the age of fifty, and was employed most of his time till feventy, in completing it. To make it perfect, he visited every place which he meant to reprefent, obtaining an accurate knowledge of every object, and laying down every part in exact proportion. Be ing fufpected as a spy, he was obliged, in fome of the Cantons, to work by moonlight to avoid the notice of the peasantry. When obliged to afcend mountains where no provifion could be procured, he used to drive a few goats along, and fubfift on their milk. In this manner, with immenfe industry, patience and fkill, he finally brought his model to be an exact reprefentation of nature.

SINGULAR STATE OF PROPERTY.

ON a promontory extending from the western fhore of the lake Zug, the property of the foil belongs to the canton of Lucern, the timber to Zug, and the leaves of the trees to Shwitz.

HAPPY CONDITION OF SOCIETY.

ON the road that runs along the valley of Muotta in Shwitz, there are feveral ranges of fhops filled with goods, the prices of which are marked. The owners do not attend thefe fhops, but leave them open; and when any person wants an article, he takes it and leaves the price on the counter. In the evening, the owner vifits his fhop and takes his money. Such an inftance of moral rectitude in a fociety, and of confidence between men, is probably without a parrellel in the hiftory of nations.

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ACCOUNT OF A SALT MINE IN POLAND, FROM COXE'S TRAVELS.

IN Welitska, a village about eight miles from Cracow, in

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Poland, is a celebrated mine funk in a folid bed of falt. at the northern extremity of a fpur of the Carpathian moun.

tains.

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"Having faftened hammocs to a large rope, which is ufed to draw up falt, we feated ourselves in a convenient manner, and were let down gently, without any apprehenfion of