The New Hampshire Gazette

TOPOGRAPHY OF VEVAY.
The Seat of Justice of Switzerland County, Indiana.

This town is about 45 miles from Cincinnati, 64 miles from Louisville, and 48 miles from Frankfort (the metropolis of Kentucky) an extensive, high, dry, beautiful, commanding and healthy bottom;-it is commodiously laid out with spacious streets, intersecting each other at right angles and open squares, reserved for public buildings, convenience and ornament. It is only in the fifth year of its age, and it contains, about four hundred inhabitants-a court house, jail, market house, school house, circulating library, a branch of the State Bank of Indiana, a printing office, several stores, mechanics of almost every description, about 70 dwelling houses, 8 or 9 new buildings now erecting and unfinished; numerous stables and out-houses, together with between 10 and 20 shops of different descriptions.

Immediately below the town of Vevay is the noted settlement of Europeans, denominated and known by the name of the Swiss Vineyards this settlement commences at the lower edge of the town, and continues without any break or interruption down to the mouth of Indian creek, a distance of about two miles, on a level bottom, about one half mile wide.

In no part of the world does the eye meet with more numerous proofs of industry; the whole settlement is interspersed and checkered over with grapes, apples, pears, plumbs, cherries, peaches, corn, grass and buckwheat.

The vine is cultivated with success, and in great abundance--far beyond the consumption of the adjoining country, and yield a very handsome profit to the cultivator. These vineyards are of great utility to the surrounding country, and a great source of pleasure and amusement to all classes of society, both citizens and travellers.

The houses of the Swiss in this settlements are nearly all built of wood; some, however, are well built and neatly painted. The neatness of the domestic concerns and the people is striking; even the most humble of their houses convey an idea of neatness and simplicity, and impress the pleasing conviction of their happiness. Each have their own lot of ground fronting on the river, and running back for quantity, which they have neatly distributed into a vineyard, a garden, a field, a meadow, a pasture and an orchard, all of which they have skirted with different trees, and supplied with well water. Their chief amusements are Singing, instrumental music, and dancing.