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

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sons, and are bury’d in Snow. They
are about Twenty Five Leagues distancc
srom the Town, though by Reason of
their Height and their Colour they seem
much nearer. The Cathedral Church
[lands on one side of these Walks, and
is perhaps the moil Magnificent of any
Proteilant Church in Europe out of
England. It is a very bold Work, and
a Mailer-piece in Gothic Architecture.
I saw the Arsenal of Bern, where
they say there are Arms for Twenty
Thousand Men. There is indeed no
great Pleasure in visiting these Maga-
zines of War after one has seen Two
or Three of them, yet it is very well
worth a Traveller’s while to look into
all that lye in his Way 5 for besides the
Idea it gives him of the Forces of a~
State, it serves to fix in his Mind the
moil considerable Parts of its History.
Thus in that of Geneva one meets with
the Ladders, Petard, and other Utensils
which were made use of in their Fa-
mous Escalade, besides the Weapons they
took of the Savoyards, Florentines, and
French in the several Battels mentioned
in their History. In this of Bern you
have the Figure and Armour of the
Count who founded the Town, of the
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