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 Sion (antiently Sedunum) is the chief town of the Country, and stands in the Center of it. Here the Bishop, who is Prince, resideth with his Chapter and Cathedral on one hill, and his Castle stands on another hill hard by. The Court of this Prince is not great, because of his, and his peoples quality. A good Bishop hath something else to do, then to be courted, and good plain people must follow their trades, not Courts. This Prince hath no Gards, because no fears: and if danger should threaten him, his people, whose love is his onely Arsenal, have hands enough to defend him. So that the Prince and People, that is, the Body Politick of this state, seemed to me like the Body natural in man, where the soul and the body being friends together, the Soul directs the body, and the Body defends the Soul.

From Sion I went to Lucia, but lodged a quarter of a mile from the town; and from thence I reached Briga at night.

Briga is a little Village standing