JET. 22.] AND SCANDINAVIA. 2O/ 



of eggs, sugar, ale, and milk, much used by travellers 

 in Sweden, and excellent for keeping one warm, we 

 set out slowly, the road being bad, and a good deal 

 of snow having fallen. The country similar to that 

 which we had of late been in namely, more hilly by 

 a great deal than the rest of Sweden. The natives 

 quite different in their appearance from the other 

 Swedes we had seen very ugly, and dressed differ- 

 ently ; loose jackets, boots, with trousers ; apparently 

 all having to do with the sea, as fishermen or sailors. 

 The inns were better ; but the people of all kinds 

 more insolent, and very greedy. In short, I never 

 saw so strongly marked a difference in so short a 

 space. 



The road wound up and down some very steep hills, 

 overhung by high rocks covered with snow ; but 

 much varied by firs perfectly green, and sometimes 

 by purple birch, which had a very pleasing effect. 

 We went extremely slow, and arrived at Qvistrum 

 about eight. The landlady is the woman mentioned 

 by Mrs Wollstonecraft, but we could not discover her 

 wondrous beauty. 



This day we passed Uddevalla, situated on a firth of 

 the sea, which was quite frozen, and had people skat- 

 ing on it. It is a neat town ; the houses tiled, and 

 built in a way quite different from the usual Swedish 

 houses. There are some good shops and houses ; and 

 the shipping is considerable, though now laid up. 

 All this day very mild indeed ; I suppose from the 

 neighbourhood of the sea. 



