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    justly express their surprise than Caractacus his , when he saw Rome , that any should envy them their humble cottages and hard-earned possessions . As it is probably what most

    readers would wish ,. I will here attempt a brief description of their valleys .- — There are three- ^ -Luzerne , La Perouse , and St . Martin . ' . That of Luzerne is the principal , and comprises the following communantes , or parishes .

    1 . Rora , situate in the mountains , which produces chesnuts and wheat . 2 . St . Jean , the entrance to the valley from Piedmont , and the finest spot belonging to the Vaudois . The eye is there pleased with a fine assemblage of meadows , gardens , orchards ,

    and vineyards : mulberry trees are also cultivated for the use of the silkworms , which bring in a good profit . The neighbouring eminences command an extensive view of the plain of Piedmont .

    3 . Angrogue , in the mountains , produces forage , chesnuts and fruit , but little wine . Here there was , in ancient times , a college for the education of ministers . 4 . Latour , a borough-town in the vale > its vicinity producing wine , wheat , fruits , forage and chesnuts . — Not far from this town there is-a cave

    iq the hills , capable of containing three or four hundred persons , where , providentially , the Vaudois found a place of refuge when persecuted by their enemies . In this cave they prepared provisions in an oven , and , it is understood , resided occasionally for

    some time , while the danger was imminent ; and here , in such perilous circumstances , it is not to be doubted that in imitation of their , Redeemer , they frequently " offered up supplication with strong crying and tears unto Him that was able to save them from death . "

    5 . Higher up the valley is Villard , producing wheat and chesnuts , but very little wine . In passing by , I noticed people with goitres , so often aeen in the Valaia , and described by Mr , Coxe , in his Travels through Switzerland ; but I think there are few if any idiots . —In the Valais they are numerous .

    < J . Bobbj , still farther in the valley , borders on Dauphine . In this parish the , scenery is stamped with an awful grandeur , 0 ^ t % mouutaiu opposite

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    the village you see snow even as late as September j and now and then you meet with a fine cascade in the neighbourhood . The Pelis , which descends towards Bobbi , and then

    runs along the valley pf Luzerne , is in some places a very impetuous torrent : it takes its source above the Alp of Pra , and loses itself in the Po * In this parish you find little produce , scarcely any thing except cattle and chesnuts .

    La Perouse is an extremely narrow valley , watered by the Cluson . Several villages in it , formerly inhabited by the Vaudois , are now exclusively so by Roman Catholics . They have only three parishes : — 1 . Pramol , situate on the mountains - its produce wheat and fruit .

    2 . Pomaret , in which the hill and vale produce wine . 3 . St . Germain , which is more agreeable and productive than the two others .

    Between the vallevs of Luzerne and La Perouse is situate the parish of Prarustix ( comprising Rocheplate and St . BartheJimi ) , which produces good wine , wheat and fruit .

    The valley of St . Martin is watered by the Germanasque . It is extreme , ! y narrow ; in fact , all the lands are on the sides of the mountains . This vale comprises : —

    1 .- Pral , situate among the higher mountains , which are covered with snow about nine months in the year . There is little wheat or fruit ; the chief resource is cattle .

    2 . Maneille : I was particularly struck with the sterility of this parish . In the neighbourhood there is a fine cascade . 3 . Villeseche . The Vaudois had formerly much more extensive grounds ; but at

    various times , and under various pretexts , they have been dispossessed of them . These three valleys have been left them rather as places of exile than * of enjoyment , and though described as producing wine , wheat , &c . yet , with the exception of a few

    spots , it is by mere dint of hard labour that the barren soil of the sides of the mountains yields the means of subsistence to the inhabitants , whose principal diet is black wheat , potatoes , cojw ' s or goat ' s milk , and , chesnuts . The roads are often serpentine over rocky ground , the noise of th *

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    Memoir respecting the Waldenses . 135

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/5/