might  be  borae  up  m  dedans,  or  walk,  if  not  too  u^m,  with
tbo  greatest  coavenience.  '

The  halls  of  the  Towo  House,  the  seat  <}f  the  legislature
for  the  Canton,  are  plain  in  the  extreme ;  it  might  be  added»
even  to  meaimeaa.  Manj  of  4he  leathern  coverings  of  the
benches  are  palohed  and  botched  in  a  wa^,  that  no  pretty
Swiss  giri  would  tolerate.  If  thi»  ultrft^republican  simpHcity
were  carried  throue^ut  all  the  ornaments,  it  would  be  less
objectionable  ;  but  the  chamber  adjoining  the  hall  of  repre-
sentatives contains  a  gallery  of  the  portraits  of  foreign  kings
and  queens*  I  inquired  what  these  personages  had  to  do
with  the  republicans  of  Geneva,  in  making  laws,  but  receiv-
ed no  satisfactory  answer.  The  arms  of  the  Canton,  con-
sisting of  the  Key,  presented  by  Charlemagne,  and  an  Eagle
wearing  a  Crown,  something  in  the  style  of  the  papal  bird,
are  less  patriotic  thao^the  '*  Liberie  et  Patrie"  of  the  Yaud,'
and  do  not  tally  exactly  with  ragged  leather  benches.
