or Murten, a considerable town of Switzerland, Switzerland, capital of a bailiwick of the same name, belonging to the cantons of Bern and Friburg. It is seated on the lake Morat, on the road from Avenche to Bern, 10 miles west of Bern and 10 miles north-east of Friburg. The lake is about six miles long and two broad, and the country about it pleasant and well cultivated. The lakes of Morat and Neufchatel are parallel to each other, but the latter is more elevated, discharging itself by means of the river Broye into the lake of Neufchatel. According to M. de Luc, the former is 15 French feet above the level of Neufchatel lake; and both these lakes, as well as that of Biene, seem formerly to have extended considerably beyond their present limits, and from the position of the country appear to have been once united. Formerly the large fish named *lilurus glanis*, or the salath, frequented these lakes, but has not been caught in them for a long time past. The environs of this town and lake were carefully examined by Mr Coxe, during his residence in Switzerland, who made several excursions across the lake to a ridge of hills situated between it and Neufchatel. Here are many delightful prospects; particularly one from the top of Mount Vuilly, which, he says, is perhaps the only central spot from which the eye can at once comprehend the vast amphitheatre formed on one side by the Jura stretching from the environs of Geneva as far as Baille, and, on the other, by that stupendous chain of snowy Alps which extend from the frontiers of Italy to the confines of Germany, and is lost at each extremity in the horizon. Morat is celebrated for the obstinate defence it made against Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and for the battle which afterwards followed on the 22d of June 1476, where the duke was defeated, and his army almost entirely destroyed*. Not far from the town, and adjoining to the high road, there still remains a monument of this victory. It is a square building, filled with the bones of Burgundian soldiers who were slain at the siege and in the battle; the number of which appears to have been very considerable. There are several inscriptions in the Latin and German languages commemorating the victory.