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GENEVA.

bounded by a Nova Zembla; where moun-tains, charged with an eternal snow, risefrom v.ajlies of spontaneous luxuriance.

“ Where ceaseless zephyrs fan the glade,

** Soft murmuring through the laurel shade;“ Beneath whose waving foliage grow“ The vi’let sweet of purple glow,

“ The daffodil that breathes perfume,

“ And roses of immortal bloom

The Prince of Hesse when at Genevain 1602, gave the town ten thousandcrowns with this epigram:—

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“ Quisquis amat vitam, sobriam, castamque tueri/

“ Perpetuo esto illis casta Geneva domus: •< •

. “ Quisquis amat vitam banc bene vivere, vivere etillam,

" llli iterura fuerit casta Geneva domus.

“ lllic invenies, quidquid conducit utrique :

“ Religio hie sana est, aura, ager atque lucus.”*

This little republic is rich and populous,

* See Appendix, 13.