. Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers. ^?r^^f. .J aiiotama j\oni ilio . o i no xci lal Mcav l^c^mall. tlWa^ci COIRE. 70. Route. 289 were abolished by the new constitution. Tlie population is composed of three-fifths Prot. and two-fifths Rom. Cath. ; one-third is f)f the (German, two-thirds of the Romansch race. The latter speak a language peculiar to them-selves, with two distinct dialects: the Ladin in the Engadine, the Albula,and Miinster valleys (probably similar to the Latin of the Roman by Livy), and th
. Switzerland and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol : handbook for travellers. ^?r^^f. .J aiiotama j\oni ilio . o i no xci lal Mcav l^c^mall. tlWa^ci COIRE. 70. Route. 289 were abolished by the new constitution. Tlie population is composed of three-fifths Prot. and two-fifths Rom. Cath. ; one-third is f)f the (German, two-thirds of the Romansch race. The latter speak a language peculiar to them-selves, with two distinct dialects: the Ladin in the Engadine, the Albula,and Miinster valleys (probably similar to the Latin of the Roman by Livy), and the Romansch or Romani, in the valleys of Dis-sentis and Ilanz, in the Oberhalbstein, Schams, etc. The following passagefrom Psalm XCVI., ver. 2,3, may serve as a specimen of the language: •Chanteal Sefjner, celebre sieu »om, annunze ofjni di sieu saliid. Reqninte traunlerUs povels sia gloria, trauntev tuottas naziuns sias ovras miiravigliusas. (Singunto the Lord, bless his name, show forth his salvation from day to his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.) Rhinesignif
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