But Valais and Grisons were considered as cantons allied to the Confederacy, as were St. Gallen, Muhlhausen, Rothweil in Swabia, and other citiesall free places, subject to no princeunited with the Swiss by a defensive alliance.

Who has not heard of the great music school of San Gallen, founded by St. Gall, "the wonder and delight of Europe," whither flocked German students?

J.J. von Tschudi, Peru, Reiseskizzen aus den Jahren 1838-1842 (St. Gallen, 1846), ii. 189 sq. H. Candelier, Rio-Hacha et les Indiens Goajires (Paris, 1893), p. 85.