TRAVELLING SKETCHES.
BY ALEXANDRA DUMAS.
Translated for the New World" by


E. S. GOULD, ESQ.

G. Il N VA;
And a TOnr or the Lake.
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With the exception of Naples, Gene
va is perhaps the most delightfully."- situa-
ted city in the world. Indolently recli-
ing like Naples, her head on the base
Of Mount Saleve and her feet kissed by
the ripples Of the lake, she seems yolup-
tuously to regard the thousand villas
scattered along the sides Of the snow-cap-
bed mountains on her right and crowning
the green hills on her left. Her light
barks with triangular sails, as white and
swift as the sea- gull, glide over the sur
face the waters; and her heavy steam
ers plough their way through its depths,
leaving behind and around them field
Of sparkling foam. Beneath this bril-
liant sky ard beside these beautiful wa
ters, it would seem that physical exer-
ton were superfluous, and that to live,
it were necessary only to breathe. Yet
this listless odalisque, this apparently in
dolent SuItana, is in fact the queen of In
dustrv: the active, commercial Geneva
numbers, no less than eighty-five mil
iionaires among her twenty thousand chill
dren.


Geneva, as her Celtic etvmology in
dicates, was founded about two thousand,
FIVE hundred years ago. Caesar, in his
commentaries, latinized the barbarous,
and made ofGEN-Ev, Geneva. Antonlne,
in his itinerary, changed the name to CE-
NAHUM: Gregoire de Tours, in his chron-
icles. STYLED her JANoBA the writers
from the eighth to the fifteenth century
called her GEBENNA; and, finally, in 1886
she took the name of GENEvE Geneva
English) and has ever since retained it.


The first historical account that we have
Of this city was transmitted to US by Ca-
sar. He informs us that he established
himself at Geneva to oppose the lnva-
sion of the Helvetians into Gaul; and,
finding its position favorable for mill
tary post. there intrenched himself. L
was then that he built tower, which still
bears his name, on the island that divides
the Rhone where it issues from the lake.
Geneva passed under the Roman yoke,
and adopted the gods of the capitol: a
temple to Apollo was erected on the spot
where the church Of St. Peter now
stands; and rock in the lake, about
two hundred yards from the shore, owed
to its situation the honor of being conse-
Grated by the fishermen to the god ofthe
sea. Toward the commencement ofthe
seventeenth century, some workmen,
while digging among the rubbish near
the base Of this rock, discovered two
small axes and brass knife, which were
used to slay the animals destined for
sacrifice. III our day, this altar to Neptune
is called simply Niton's rock.


Geneva submitted to the Romans for
five centuries. In 426, that flood of
barbarians that was overwhelming Eu-
rope, inundated her with one of its waves.
She passed successively under the DOM
ination of the Burgundians, the Ost-
Goths, the Emperor ofGermany, Charles
the Bald, and others. until 1901, when


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