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Rh and furniture, yet this was the only convent the conqueror spared.

A regular journal of the state of the weather, and the principal events that occur at the convent, especially the lives saved, is published once a month in one of the periodical works at Geneva—I think, "Bibliotheque Universelle."—

The benevolence and courage of this fraternity amount to a devotion truly extraordinary, as the following incident will show:—The Italian Courier, a few winters ago, arrived from Aoste at St. Bernard on a very inclement afternoon. The Monks endeavoured to dissuade him from proceeding, but he determined to go, and they sent two domestics to guide him. These not returning at the proper time, another servant and two dogs were dispatched. The dogs refused to move, a certain sign that danger was on the road; but life was at stake, and they were forced to go. No soul returned that night, neither men nor dogs; and some days afterwards, about half a league from the Convent, they were discovered, buried under an avalanche, all dead.

religious society has subsisted, under various circumstances and forms of government, ever since the Reformation; but did not receive a legal establishment till the year 1560. About thirty years afterwards, episcopacy was renounced, and presbyterianism adopted; but in the reign of James, episcopacy was restored, and their prelates were consecrated by the English bishops. In the turbulent