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writings; and his sincere thanks for the very friendly and gratifying exertions, which have been made to promote the subscription for this volume.

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The words of "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" have been set to music by Miss Browne, sister of Mrs. HeThe music, which has not before been printed, will, in a few days, be published by Mr. S. H. Parker, Washington street, Boston.

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THE LEAGUE OF THE ALPS,

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THE MEETING ON THE FIELD OF GRÜTLI.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Ir was in the year 1308, that the Swiss rose against the tyranny of the Bailiffs appointed over them by Albert of Austria. The field called the Grütli, at the foot of the Seelisberg, and near the boundaries of Uri and Unterwalden, was fixed upon by three spirited yeomen, Walter Fürst (the father-in-law of William Tell), Werner Stauffacher, and Erni (or Arnold) Melchthal, as their place of meeting, to deliberate on the accomplishment of their projects.

"Hither came Fürst and Melchthal, along secret paths over the heights, and Stauffacher in his boat across the Lake of the Four Cantons. On the night preceding the 11th of November, 1307, they met here, each with ten associates, men of approved worth; and while at this solemn hour they were wrapt in the contemplation that on their success depended the fate of their whole posterity, Werner, Walter, and Arnold held up their hands to heaven, and in the name of the Almighty, who has created man to an inalienable degree of freedom, swore jointly and strenuously to defend that freedom. The thirty associates

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