[XXI.] Nearly 500 years (says Ebel, speaking of the French Invasion) had elapsed, when, for the first time, foreign soldiers were seen upon the frontiers of this small Canton, to impose upon it the laws of their governors.
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_The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake of Lugano_.

[XXIV.] This Church was almost destroyed by lightning a few years ago, but the altar and the image of the Patron Saint were untouched.

The Mount, upon the summit of which the Church is built, stands amid the intricacies of the Lake of Lugano; and is, from a hundred points of view, its principal ornament, rising to the height of 2000 feet, and, on one side, nearly perpendicular.

The ascent is toilsome; but the traveller who performs it will be amply rewarded.