Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

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Switzerland.
reckon’d the greatest Curiolity of these
Parts. It lyes in the pretticll Solitude
imaginable, among Woods and Rocks,
which at first Sight dispose a Man to be
serious. There has lived in it a Hermite
these Five and T wenty Years, who with
his own Hands has worked in the Rock
a pretty Chappel, a Sacrifice, a Chamber,
Kitchin, Cellar, and other Convenien-
ces. His Chimney is carry’d up through
the whole Rock, so that you see
the Sky through it, notwithstanding
the Rooms lye very deep. He has cut
the Side of the Rock into a Flat for a
Garden, and by laying on it the waste
Earth that he has found in several of
a Spot of Ground of it as furnishes out
a kind of Luxury for a Hermite. As
he law Drops of Water distilling from
several Parts of the Rock, by folio wing
Veins of them, he has made h -
self Two or Three Fountains in the
Bowels of the Mountain, that serve his
Table, and water his little Garden.
We had very bad Ways from hence
to Bern.* a great Part of them through
Woods of Fir-trees. The great Quan-
tity of Timber they have in this Coun-
try makes them mend their High-ways
with Wood instead of Stone. I could
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