TRAVELLING, &c. 13 



The farmer talkb of grafles and of grain. 

 The Tailor tells you ftories of the main. 

 You ought not therefore to wonder, that i 

 choofe to make travelling in one's own coun- 

 trey the fubjedl of my difcouifc. Every one 

 thinks well of what belongs to himfelf, and 

 every one has pleafures peculiar to himfelf. I 

 have travelled about, and paiTed over on foot 

 the frofty mountains of Lapland, have climb- 

 ed up the craggy ridges of Norland, and wan- 

 dered along its fteep hills, and almoft impe- 

 netrable woods. I have made large excurfions 

 into the forefts of Dalecarlia, the groves of 

 Gothland, the heaths of Smoland, and the 

 unbounded plains of Scania. There is fcarce- 

 iy any confiderable province of Sweden, which 

 i have not crawled thro' and examined ; not 

 without great fatigue of body and mind. My 

 journey to Lapland was indeed an undertaking 

 of immenfe labor ; and i muft confefs, that i 

 was forced to undergo more labor, and danger 

 in travelling thro' this one traifl of the nor- 

 thern world, than thro' all thofe forreign coun- 

 treys put together, which I have ever vifited y 

 tho' even thefe have coil me no fmall pains, 

 and have not a little exhaufled my vigor. But 

 love to truth, and gratitude towards the fu- 



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