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 out of the Town; and established there a kinde of Democraty, or rather a kind of Aristocraty, mingled of Laymen and Ministers. Yet the Bishop keeps still his Title, and the Chapter its Revenues and Lands, which happily lyes in Savoy out of the reach of the short jurisdiction of Geneva. Both the Bishop and Chapter reside in Anisy in Savoy, and officiate in the Cordeliers Church. Of this Seat was Bishop the late Canonized Saint, S. Francis de Sales, a man of singular sweetness and piety, mingled with zeal and discretion. I have read of him, that in his life time, he made four thousand sermons to the people.

Having thus seen the little All of Geneva, I made towards Swisserland, leaving the Lake on my right hand; or rather taking it on my right hand; for it would needs accompany me to Lausanna, where it took leave of me, or I of it.

This Lake is absolutely the fairest I have seen: its fairer then either the Lake Major, the Lake of Como, the Lake of Zuric, the Lake of