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 Aurigo, and so making towards the Lake of Wallinstade, I passed it over in boat; as I did also soon after, that of Isee; and so fell into the territories of Brescia in Italy belonging to the state of Venice.

fourth voyage into Italy was from Lyons again and Geneva, where I now took the Lake on my left hand, and passing along the skirts of Savoy, I came to Boveretta, a little Village; and so to Saint Maurice the first Town in the Valetians Countrey: This Town is so called from St. Maurice the Brave Commander of the Theban Legion, in the primitive times, and who was martyred here for the profession of Christian Religion, together with his whole Legion. Hence an Abbey was built here by Sigismond King of Burgondy, and called S. Maurice.

Now, this Country is called the Country of the Valesians, from the perpetual Valley in which it lyeth.