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Appendix , 35.

The famous cheese, called Schabecygre,or Chapsigre, is composed of the milk andodoriferous herbs produced in the canton ofGlaris , which herbs are common there, butrare in every other part of Switzerland .The principal ingredient, which causes thehigh flavour, and peculiar smell of theChapsigre, is the trifolium odoratum , orsweet scented melitot,

Appendix , 36,

“ M. de Bochart (Mem. sur l’Hist.Ancienne de la Suisse) donne une racine“ celtiques au nom Gemrni: il le fait de-“ river du mot gammi ou gaemmi qui sig-