THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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Further, a country in which you are obliged to lay a fide your 
own carriage, and to fubftitute one which is fmaller and left 
convenient, cannot be faid to be well adapted to the purpofe of 
travelling : yet this is the cafe in Sweden, where you mufc be 
prepared to encounter this and many other difagreeable circum- 
ftances. 
The horfes are fmall and weak, and their deficiency in fize 
and ftrength is to be made up by increafe of number. This mul¬ 
tiplication is attended with a world of trouble. It is not in an 
inftant that fo many horfes can be put to the carriage; the chance 
is increafed that fomething or other will be wanting, fomething 
wrong or out of order in the harnefs; there is alfo more diffi¬ 
culty in bringing the horfes to draw and keep pace with each 
other. All thefe impediments taken together, occafion a confi- 
derable loft of time. You are flopped at every turn, and the ex¬ 
pedition of travelling in Sweden, compared with that of France 
and England, is found to be a mere fable. Among the feven or 
eight horfes that you are obliged to ufe, you have always to ap¬ 
prehend that fome one may turn out reftive ; and the bad ex¬ 
ample of one will fpoil all the reft. I travelled from Helfingburg 
to Stockholm, by the way of Gothenburg, together with one of 
my countrymen in a viennoife ; but inftead of three horfes, as 
in Germany, we were forced to increafe our number, till it 
amounted to feven. The horfes were put to the carriage four 
a-breaft in the firft line, and three in the fecond. They were 
fo little, lean, and feeble, that it feemed as if our vehicle were 
drawn 
