2992: the traveller. Wo Ive. ary” 
‘THE TRAVELLER: No IV. 
@BSERVATIONS AND OPINIONS-OF J. W. SPENCER: 
Continued from p. 162. 
Altorff, Switzerland,. 
Some gloomy philosophers maintain,. that the life. . 
of man is one continued scene of wearinefs, vexatis= 
on, and disappointment ; and even the royal aphorist 
has said, that “ all is vanity and vexation of spirit.” 
This man certainly never knew the pleasures which 
a sense of the enjoyment of liberty confers upon the 
minds of innocent virtuous people, or he could nog 
have said so.. Had he travelled two days with my 
honest landlord, William Schutz ef Gersaw, through 
this-part of Switzerland, he would. have altered his. 
tone. Schutz, though now upwards of seventy. 
years: of age, has accompanied me with a warm en- 
thusiasm of mind, that, among old paced statesmen, 
would be deemed little fhort of insanity in a-person 
of twenty-five years of age only, whose soul was still 
glowing with the benign delirium of youthful inex- 
perience. Neither sorrow nor vexation can find room. 
to lodge within his bosom. All. his faculties. have. 
been continually alive since we left his native home, 
to imprefs me with the same enthusiastic ardour. 
with himself. He saw his efforts have not been en- 
tirely in vain ; and his happinefs, I have every rea- 
son to believe, has been without alloy. 
Ever since I entered Switzerland, I have begun. 
tea. doubt, whether the wide extension of literature 
