ſtates, like thoſe of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, are very complicated, and therefore very difficult to be fully explained; yet the moſt ſuperficial enquirer will find the mod evident traces of a compoſition of all the three powers in all of them.
To begin with the cantons commonly reputed democratical.
DEMOCRATICAL CANTONS.
APPENZEL.
The canton of Appenzel conſiſts of a ſeries of vallies, ſcattered among inacceſſible rocks and mountains, in all about eighteen miles ſquare. The people are laborious and frugal, and have no commerce but in cattle, hides, butter, cheeſe, and a little linen made of their own flax. It has no walled towns, and only two or three open boroughs, and a few ſmall villages: it is, like New England, almoſt a continued village, covered with excellent houſes of the yeomanry, built of wood, each of which has its territory of paſture grounds, commonly ornamented with trees; neatneſs and convenience are ſudied without, and a remarkable cleanlineſs within. The principal part of the inhabitants have preſerved the ſimplicity of the paſtoral life. As there are not, at moſt, above fifty thouſand fouls, there cannot be more than ten thouſand men capable of bearing arms. It is not at all ſurpriſing, among ſo much freedom, though among rocks and herds, to hear of literature, and men of letters who are an ornament to their country.
