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The people have for their Prince the Bishop of Sion the chief Town of the Country. Their Valley is above four dayes journey long, besides their hills which are two more: Most of their little Towns and Villages stand upon hill sides, leaving all the plain Country for tillage and pasturage. Their houses are low and dark, many of them having no windows, and the rest very little ones. Sed casa pugnaces Curios angusta tegebat. As for the people here, they are all Catholicks, sincere honest men, of stout courage, yet of innocent lives, much snow quenching their lust, and high mountains staving off from them all luxe and Vanity, the harbingers of Vice. They have short hair on their heads, but beards in folio: they are got so for into the grande mode, as to wear breeches and doublets; but that's all: for otherwise their clothes look as if they had been made by the Taylors of the old Patriarcks; or as if the fashion of them had been taken out of old hangings and ta-pistry.