tatue ends my admiration of Borromean taste: for it is
not to be borne that the Isola Bella, which nature intended as a central
finish to such a fairy land as the Lago Maggiore, should have been
tortured into a piece of confectionary less elegant than the good taste
of Gunter or Grange would have devised as the centre of a bowl of lemon
cream. The Isola Madre, it is true, is beautiful; for no Italian
landscape gardener has yet assailed it with his line and rule.

Our welcome into Switzerland was novel, but pleasing to lovers of
animals. Several herds of cattle met us on our road to Brieg,
accompanying their masters to the mountain chalets, and fairly beset us
with their attentions. The cows crowded and shouldered each other to be
scratched; one large goat; slipping under their legs, put her head under
my arm, and took my hand in her mouth; and a whole flock of sheep turned
round and ran after us in order to obtain more notice. I had no idea
before that any animal but the dog might be tamed to such a degree of
instinctive tact, as to perceive whether or not its caresses will be
acceptable to a stranger; and I am convinced, that the celebrated Ritson
might have made more converts to his Braminical system by importing and
exhibiting a Swiss flock, than by writing a book against animal food,
and classing eggs as a vegetable succedaneum.

It would be as superfluous to describe the well-known ground of
Switzerland, as that of Cumberland; and indeed when once within sight of
Geneva, one is almost at home. One and one only stage seems to remain,
more desirable still.

"Cum peregrino,
Labore fossi venimus larem ad nostram,
Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto."

THE END.

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JAMES CAWTHORN, COCKSPUR STREET.

ITINERARY OF PROVENCE AND THE RHONE, made during the Year 1819, By JOHN
HUGHES, A.M. of Oriel College, Oxford: Illustrated by the following
Views, engraved in the line manner from Drawings by Dewint, by W.B.
Cooke, G. Cook, and J.C. Allen. Royal Quarto or Imperial Octavo. Isle of
St. Marguerite, the Prison of the Masque de Fer--Chateau
Rochepot--Lyons--Lyons Cathedral--Mont Blanc from a height above
Lyons--Tower of Mauconseil, Vienne--Chateau La Serve--Valence and
Dauphine Mountains--Montelimart--Chateau Grignan, Two Views--Castle of
Montdragon--Triumphal Arch at Orange--Avignon, Two Views--Aqueduct of
Pont du Gard--Castle of Beaucaire and Bridge of Boats--Tarascon--A