THE CANTON OF BERNE.

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Gournigel is the most agreeable. Its waters, which verymuch resemble those of Harrowgate, attract many visi-tors in the summer months. This bath is about tenmiles from my house, and is situated on the declivity ofa hill, whence it takes its source and name. The roadto it lies through the village of Rickesberg, which isadorned by a castle, the residence of Mr. Stieger. Thistillage has a pretty appearance at a distance, beingsituated at the foot of huge rocks, which rise above itin a pyramidical form, and continue the whole way tothe bath. The bath itself is 7000 feet above the sur-face of the sea • and from the summit of the mountain,'wherein it stands, which rises three miles in heightabove it, there is an extensive view over the cantons°f Berne and Soleure , great part of the Lake of Neu-c batel, and the valley of Gouggisberg, which is aboutnine miles in length. The Gouggisberg, one of thehighest mountains of the environs of Berne, is in thehaillage of Schwarzenbourg. Here are found twoParishes; or, on computation, more than nine thousandPersons. The people of this country, although within aVe ry short distance of the capital of the canton, forms ins °me sort a separate people; and it is a general obser-v ation of travellers in Switzerland , that, for the space,there is no country in the world, that offers such atasteful variety of costume, in the dress of the peasan-try, as also in local manners.