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and then went on board a fhip bound to Norway , at 
the invitation of a gentleman who was difpofed to be 
his friend, and whole nephew was in after of the 
veftel in which he embarked. 
Nothing material occured on the voyage, and they 
loon arrived at the defigned port. A country diverfi- 
fied with rocks of ftupendous magnitude, and trees of 
unfading verdure, where fbme of the natives have 
fcarce experienced the arts of civilization, could not fail 
to afford novelty, if it did not impart fatisfatftion to 
an Englishman. The fun, during his ftay, fet only to 
rife ; and few hours were allotted to fleep, either by 
him, or his company. Sometimes he wandered on 
the banks of creeks, the haunt of fea-fowl, and other 
rude birds, where no articulate voice was heard ; and 
at other feafbns, remarked the progreft of vegetation 
anions: the hills: And yet ftich is the force of cuftom 
in the human mind, that the rude inhabitant lias no 
ambition to quit his native mountains, clad with per¬ 
petual fhow, for the funny regions of more fbuthern 
latitudes. Our author frequently experienced among 
thefe illiterate people that hofpitality which flourifh- 
es left vigoroufly in more civilized countries* 
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