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once a Bishops Cathedral, but now possessed by Ministers of Calvins communion, and the man that shewed us the Church (though no Catholick) assured us, that the records of that Church bore, that Masse had been said in it thirteen hundred years ago,

Swisserland.From Lausanna I went towards Soleur, skirting through the Cantons, sometimes of Berne, sometimes of Fribourg, and sometimes in one dayes journey, I passed into a Catholick Canton, and by and by, into a Protestant Canton again: for here Catholick and Protestant Villages are mingled together, and make the Country look like the back side of a pair of tables, checquered with white and black. In one Village you have a Cross set up, to signify that it is Catholique belonging to the Canton of Friburge; by and by in another Village, a high flag with the picture of a Bear in it, Berne signifies as much as Bear.to signifie, that it belongs to the Canton of Berne, and is Protestant: and yet they live civilly and neighbourly together without

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