THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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Et tu n’es diftingue parmis les animaux 
Que par ton noble orgueil, ton genie, et tes maux.* 
Leaving Trolhatta, we proceeded to Stockholm by Weller- 
land, Nericia, Sudermania, and the government of Stockholm. 
Though the country in the near vicinity of Gothenburg be bleak 
and barren, it improves greatly as you recede from that town and 
the fea coaft, and advance north-eaft towards the capital. Woods, 
water, rocks, hills tufted with trees, vales and cultivated fields, 
give it not a very rich but a pleafing afpedt. The woods, which 
become fine and thick on each fide of the road, are fometimes 
fo extenfive as to ftretch out their limits beyond the eye of the 
traveller. They confift chiefly of oak, birch, mountain-afh, and 
firs ; all of them tall but Render, which perhaps is owing to the 
fcanty foil in which they grow. The cattle are fmall, and their 
fleeces hang down like the hair of goats. The horfes I have 
already defcribed. But I ought to add, that when tolerably well 
fed, they are very adtive. 
On the fubjedt of horfes I mull farther obferve, that when we 
came to Strbmfholm, a fmall palace belonging to the King, on 
the lake of Malar, we went to fee the royal ftables that were 
* What may not be performed by the fertility of art ? It is by her means that 
man has become lord of the world. It is a vain thing to fancy that he derives 
this title of fovereignty from nature—Mortal ! there is nothing thine, that does 
not become fo through labour. This globe is not fubjected to the vaft extent of 
thy power by birth-right, but bv that of conqueft—thou art only diftinguilhed 
from other animals by a noble pride, by thy genius, and by thy miferies ! 
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