Crossword-Solution: NYON 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

From the bathing-place of Nyon château a slim, tall lad shot out into the blue water, as much at home there, evidently, as he had been while racing on the terrace.

JOHN WILLIAM DE LA FLÉCHÈRE, VICAR OF MADELEY, WHO WAS BORN AT NYON, IN SWITZERLAND, SEPTEMBER THE 12TH, 1729, AND FINISHED HIS COURSE AUGUST THE 14TH, 1785, IN THIS VILLAGE, WHERE HIS UNEXAMPLED LABOURS WILL LONG BE REMEMBERED.

Cergues, on the road from Lons le Saulnier to Nyon; the next best is to be had above Boujean, on the road from Basle to Bienne.

Very extensive views may be obtained from any of the summits in the southern range of the Jura; among which the Weissenstein above Soleure, the Chasseral above Bienne, the Chanmont above Neufchatel, the Chasseron above Grançon, the Suchet above Orbe, the Mont Tendre or the Noirmont above Morges, and the Dôle above Nyon, are the most frequented.

This library has been long celebrated for its collection of _French Topography_ and of early _French_ and _Spanish Romances_; a great portion of the latter having been obtained at the sale of the Nyon Library.