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MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE. 229
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sequent dissolution of the two monasteries . The country passed to Protestant Berne—the valley was divided into three
villages—serfdom was abolished ; and gradually the arts and occupations of civilized life gave light and impulse and energy to this dreary region .
Chenitthe smallest and last founded of these hamlets , made the slowest , towards improvement . Situated higher up , near
the picturesque progress source of the beautiful river Orbe , richly-wooded and mountainous , with a considerable space covered by the pellucid
waters of a smaller lake united to the grand Lac-de-Joux by a silvery streamlet , the scenery was romantic in the extreme ; but the soil , thin
and rocky , scarcely afforded competent nourishment to a few herds of goatsor brought to perfection the barley and oats spread over
some patches , of arable land scattered here and there amongst the mountains . Deriving its name from a rude buildingwhere the
, huntsmen of the Baron de la Sarraz , a great benefactor of the expelled monks in their palmy days , formerly kept his hounds , and
originally a sort of suburb of Lieu , it was nearly a century ere its assumption of freedom and separate parochial right to cut down
as wood well in as the moral neig causes hbouring , retarded forests its were advancement fully established . Besides . expensive Physical ,
litigation with the authorities of Lieu and private individuals who contested the claim to hew down timber on their own account , a
succession of scanty harvests—several fires which rapidly destroyed the huts , rather than houses , constructed mainly of mere logs
composing the dwellings of the poorer classes—and more especially the terrible loss sustained by the forests bordering the lake spontaneously
igniting after a season of unexampled drought , ( a calamity of many days of industry ' duration to numerous in two fearful families instances supported , ) which solel cut y off by the the onl traffic y source they
carried on as woodmen and charcoal dealers with the towns in their penury vicinity * and —combine debasement d to , that keep it Chenit came to in be a regarded state the of by such its de exceeding soverei Vaud gn
t and masters o 1700 froin , the two 1612 Lords native , when of historians Berne the first , as have church the recorde " Siberia was opened d that of there for Pays divine was -- a service series ;" ,
of twenty , -seven pastors , all of whom went there from compulsion , and remained as short a period as they could . f
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Maria Bocci La Moinette. 229
MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE . 229
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/13/
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