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THE CANTON OF LEMAN.
of conducting the water to it is very great. Anotherengine is there erected for the purpose of throwing thewater upon the faggots, which are curiously placed forpurifying it. These faggots last thirty or forty years,and are in a building which is between two and three hun-dred feet square. It has six different stories, and ^theengine is capable of forcing the water up to the highestof them. Before this engine was constructed, the waterwas thrown upon straw by the workmen. The copperis very large, and of a different form from that at Droit-wich, where the salt is both finer and whiter.
Round the spot where the boiling-house is erected,nature displays her beauties in the form of woods,springing from the sides of fanciful and romantic rocksof granite, which support, on their very brinks, churches,towers, and villages; and below them, are fields of eglan-tines and roses, intermixed with golden sheaves of corn.
From this village to St. Maurice, the last place east-ward in the canton of Leman, a perpetual change ofscenery delights the traveller, who is even undecidedwhether he shall most admire, orchards, castles, groves,ruins, hills, cascades, or rivers, which sweetly meanderthrough the plains to join the boisterous Rhone.