BERN

BERN is also the name of a city and canton in Switzerland; the former being situated in $7^\{\backslash circ\}\; 20\text{'}$ E. long. and $47^\{\backslash circ\}$ N. lat.

The Canton of Bern is by far the most extensive and powerful of all Switzerland: Their government is aristocratical and their religion protestant, according to the Presbyterian form.