Switzerland Or a Journal of a Tour And Residence in That Country in the Years
Switzerland Or a Journal of a Tour And Residence in That Country in the Years
L Louis Simond
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Some other places in Switzerland arc also noted tor * This account of the introduction of Christianity into Helvetia, so early as the first century of our cia, seems rather fabulous ; it is better ascertained that some learned Scotchmen were the first who propat^ated the light of the (iospel in that country six hun- drerl years later. See Chap. Iv. Vol. 11. the peculiarities; of their inhabitant?^, and the stancl- in^i' jokes to which they arc subject are often the occasion of bloody quarrels. ...The people of the Entlibuch, in the Canton of Lucerne, alone bear such jokes with exemplary good humour : on the last Monday of the carnival (hirs montag) each vil- lage bard repairs to the neighbouring hamlet, and then assembling the inliabitants, repeats in extem- pore verse, more or less hannonious, but sometimes shewing considerable talents, such traits of their secret history during the preceding year, as have transpired, while the man of song belonging to this place acts the same part elsewhere.
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