Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel is a city and western canton of Switzerland, lying between Lake Neuchâtel and France. The surface is diversified by the Jura Mountains, and plentifully supplied with small streams. The greater part of the inhabitants are French Protestants. Coal and iron are found, stock-raising and agriculture are engaged in, but the great specialty of the canton is watchmaking, which is chiefly carried on at La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle. Neuchâtel was incorporated in the Swiss Confederation in 1815. Neuchâtel, capital of the canton, has a fine situation on the North-West shore of the lake, 86 miles North-East of Geneva. It has many educational, art, and charitable institutions, and is chiefly engaged in the manufacture of watches, jewellery, &c. Lake of Neuchâtel is a beautiful sheet of water, 25 miles in length, and from 3 to 6 in breadth.

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