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    ' ( Continued frcitn p . $ 69 . ) Valleys of San Martino arid PeyroHsa . November 8 th . San Martino and La Peyrousa are often spoken of as only one Valley , the second being a continuation of the first , in a somewhat

    different direction ; In this excursion , I had for my guide , for the first day , a yoUng man from La Tour , wkh whom I had some conversation respecting a circumstance which had lately occurred to one of his companions , and had excited mach interest in the Valleys . Pierre Chenonon , aged 18 , a youth brought up entirely in the higher mountains , where he tended cattle , had corrie down to the village of La Tour to purchase some articles at a shop opposite the house of M . Bert . While he was standing in the shop , near the door , a procession * consisting only of a priest and two or three boys ,

    passfed by , bearmg the host to a sick person . Not observing that it was the host , and , he says , not knowing that he was obliged to take off his hat , ( as the laws of Piedmont require all persons to do 9 within thirty yards'' distance , I think , ) the covered head of the rustic heretic caught the zealous eye of the priest . The mistress of the shop snatched off the hat which endangered the head that wore it , but the young man put it on again . The consequence was , that as he was on his way back to the cottage of his parents , he was

    wrested by the gens d ' armes , whom the priest had not failed to inform , and he was shortly afterwards conveyed to Fenestrelles to prison , for the term of three months . Here he would have to remain during the depth of winter , without any fire or provisions , but such as his friends * at thirty miles distance , might furnish him with the means of purchasing . My companion wept as he spoke of this , but did not make any reflections against the priest 1

    or the government , only lamenting the " misfortune' of his friend . The accuracy of his statement was afterwards confirmed by M * Bert , who added , that he himself had written to the intendant of the district , to ask pardon in behalf of the young man , for an offence committed through ignorance or thoughtlessness , but without any success ; and he remained imprisoned at the time of my leaving La Tour , seven weeks afterwards . —I spent a day at La Peyrousa , the principal village in the Valley of the same name . This being on the eastern bank of the Clusone which traverses this vale , contains no

    Protestant inhabitants , they being limited by law to the western side , which is next to the mountains , and less fertile than the eastern . I had here an opportunity of hearing a Catholic Missionary preach , it being a festival day , and on this and other occasions was much struck with the contrast between , the manner of delivery and style of preaching of the Vaudois and those of their Catholic neighbours . * jThe latter declaim with loud vociferation and almost frantic vehemence . The former are generally animated ^ but employ

    only mild persuasion . On Friday afternoon * November 10 th , the younger nephew of the late moderator , Peyrahi or Peyran ^ as the name is usually called , came to see me at the inn , ancf to propose my accompanying him on a visit to M . Vin ^ on , of Pramole , which I accepted , and had much pleasure in M . Peyran ' s conversation . lie is quite a young man and of strong constitution , yet even he finds the duty of the two churches of Manelli and MaofcUL in the Valley of San Martino , to be exceedingly arduous . After

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1827, page 719, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1801/page/7/