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

396 Switzerland.
were not they got together in these
Houses of Devotion. All Men of dark
Tempers, according to their Degree of
Melancholy or Enthusiasm, may find
Convents fitted to their Humours, and
meet with Companions as gloomy as
themselves. So that what the Prote-
Hants would call a Fanatick, is in the
Roman Church a Religious of such or
such an Order 5 as I have been told of
an Englijh Merchant at Lisbon^ who af-
ter some great Disappointments in the
World was resolv’d to turn Quaker or
Capuchin j for, in the Change of Reli-
gion, Men of ordinary Understandings
don’t so much consider the Principles,
as the Practice of those to whom they
go over.
From St. Gaal I took Horse to the
Lake of Constance^ which lyes at Two
Leagues Distance from it, and is form’d
by the Entry of the Rhine. This is the
only Lake in Europe that disputes for
Greattiess with that of Geneva 5 it ap-
pears more beautiful to the Eye, but
wants the fruitful Fields and Vineyards
that border upon the other. It receives
its Name from Cmftance^ the chief Town
on its Banks. When the Cantons of
Bern and Zurich proposed, at a general
Diet, th£ Incorporating Geneva in the
Num-