TRAVELS 
paffion is a defire of public notice and diflinction. There is not 
an individual for whom they feel, in their heart, fucli Rrong and 
violent fentiments of friendlhip, tendernefs, and love, as are 
found in thofe who live in warmer climates. 
The fame conRitution which produces diRance and refcrve in 
one clafs of women, is the caufe of exceflive licentioufnefs in the 
inferior orders. The prodigality of their kindnefs is in proportion 
to the coldnefs of their temperament. They feem to think they 
can never give enough., becaufe they feel little even in bellowing 
the greatefl favours. There are not in Stockholm, as in other 
places, any women of the town: inllead of thefe—individuals 
have miftreffes, w T ho maintain a rank in fociety much above their 
condition in life. They are pretty much in the Ryle of fome 
diRinguifhed individuals of that defcription in England. They 
require to be courted in a formal manner; nor are their good 
graces, fuch as they are, to be obtained by any one without lome 
previous introdufticn; a cuflom which 1 am far from difcom- 
mending, but w T hich, on the contrary, I think is entitled to fome 
credit, even though they are not contented with one lover at a 
time. Perhaps they might be fo fatisfied, and even inclined to 
exchange their condition with the more uniform Rate of concur 
bines, if they could meet with admirers fufficiently affluent and 
generous to enable them to confine their acquaintance to one per- 
fbn. But the honorary premium ufually given them is very fmall> 
and they muR have at leaR feven or eight lovers to fupport the 
Ryle of drefs they afpire to, which is the only objedt of their care 
