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account, they would find that travelling in Sweden with one’s 
own equipage, not to mention the circumitance of its extreme 
inconvenience, is, on the whole, more expenfive than in any 
other country of Europe, except perhaps in England. The coun¬ 
tries in which I have found it eafieft to travel, that is, where con¬ 
venience is moft happily united with cheapnefs, are Aufiiria and 
Bohemia, particularly the latter. I am not confcious of any ten¬ 
dency to either ill-humour or prejudice : I only declare matters 
of fad: that have come under my own obfervation, and under 
that of many other travellers. If fome have travelled in Sweden 
with greater advantages than myfelf, I can only fay that they 
have been more fortunate : but I muft ftill maintain, that thofe 
impediments which I have defcribed, are extremely difagreeable, 
and not to be met with in any other part of Europe. 
Another comfort for travellers, much boafted of by the na¬ 
tives, and reprefented as peculiar only to their country, is, that at 
every poft houfe a regifter is put into your hands, under the de¬ 
nomination of a day-book, in which travellers fet down their 
names, their Rate or condition of life, w'hence they came, and 
whither they are going ; and if they have been fatisfied or other- 
wife with the poftilion, or rather the peafant. But it is, in my 
opinion, rather to be confidered as an inconvenience: for it is, in 
fad, a mere formality, that occafions a wafte of time without re¬ 
medying any one of the evils that may be recorded and com¬ 
plained of. When a traveller fets out on a journey through Swe¬ 
den, under the erroneous notion of its being a wild and barbarous 
country, 
