[4] The costume is worn only by the peasantry.
[5] The Rhigi is not remarkable for its height, being but five thousand seven hundred feet above the plain; but being isolated from the great range, it affords much the widest view.
[6] See his calculation in figures, in 'Sketches of Switzerland.'
[7] The others are Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck.
[8] The average number of new works per annum, issued for the first time in Great Britain in the last three years, is about 1200; in France, 4,000; in Germany, 6,000.
[9] A happy combination of safety, beauty, and convenience, is shown in the ramparts of the city of Geneva.
[10] The 'Old Man' of the Bubbles denounces these trumpets, but verily they are preferable to the long tin horns of the English 'guards,' which are indeed enough to
——'break his bands of sleep asunder
And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder!
Hark, hark! the horrid sound;
He raises his head as if waked from the dead,
And amazed he stares around!'
[11] Among the Rhenish legends, versified by Planche, is one of the 'Mouse-Tower,' near Ehrenfels, commencing:
'The Bishop of Mentz was a wealthy prince.
Wealthy and proud was he;
He had all that was worth a wish on earth,
But he had not charitie!
He would stretch out his empty hands to bless,
Or lift them both to pray;
But, alack! to lighten man's distress,
They moved no other way.'