Here it is to be observed, that modern geographers give the name of Switzerland to all the countries situated between France, Germany and Italy, and inhabited not only by the Swiss, properly so called, or Thirteen Cantons but other states, allies or subjects of the Grand Helvetic body, prior to their falling a prey to the rapacity of the first consul of France.
This being a mountainous country, lying on the Alps, which forms an amphitheatre for more than 100 miles, the frosts are consequently severe in winter, the hills being covered with snow sometimes all the year long.
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