Excerpt from The Counts of Gruyere
At the eastern extremity of this enclosure be yond the slender helfrey Of the Hotel de Ville and the ancient shrine where a great crucifix looks down upon the scene, a flagged pathway rises sharply under a tall clock tower within the enceinte of the castle set at the steep extremity of the ridge.
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