1803.] Account of a late 
moft numerous, it is advifeable, not to 
ufe too much lenity, but fometimes to ex- 
ert all your authority, in order to be well 
and promptly ferved. At,the paflage of 
bridges or of rivers, you pay a fimall toll; 
in other refpects, there is nothing to be 
laid out for the maintaining of the high- 
roads, or of a fafeguard. ‘Ihe roads are 
fecure ; the peafants mend them by a 
coruée, and even from a principle of emu- 
lation. ; 
«€ On my arrival at Enkoping, I form- 
ed, for the firft time, an idea, comical 
enough, of the non-maritimetowns. Fi- 
gure to yourfelf houfes formed of joilts, 
laid horizontally on one another ; moft of 
thefe houles are compofed only of a ground. 
floor, a very .{mall] number having roofs 
with tiles, the others are covered with 
turf, the green, however, of which does 
not contraft ill with the red colour which 
is given to the outfide of the pofts, and 
with the white of the chimneys. I here 
amuled mylelf with contemplating, on my 
approach to the town, a vait field filled 
with cabbages, extremely well cultivated, 
and which {warmed with a multitude of la- 
bourers—a delightful profpeét, which we 
fo often enjoy in Germany. Wre quickly 
had horfes ; and we were eager to exchange 
the fight of naked defarts, the impre(s 
of mifery, and a wretched road, for 
the afpect of a fmiling champaign. At 
the next poft, no horfe was to be had ; the 
road was but little frequented ; and we 
mutt, of neceffity, ffop an hour ere we 
could procure one. We were obliged to 
remain in a miferable cabin, where we 
were but indifferently fheltered from the 
wind and rain, which beat unceafingly : 
half of the roof of this hut had been 
eaten up by the cattle.” 
Our traveller having vifited a church, 
which ftood on the road, does hot forget 
to notice a cultom generally practifed in 
Sweden, and which is fill. prevalent in 
fome places in Germany: a perfon is ap- 
pointed to walk round the church,, hold- 
ing in his hand a wand (in Sweden, of an 
enormous length), with which he gently 
taps thofe on whom the word has noi been 
powerful enough to prevent them from 
giving way to fleep. It is well-known, that, 
in the Lutheran churches, the ‘prayers 
come firft and the fermon always follows, 
and that che difcourie of the paitor is con- 
fidered as the moft effential part of the di- 
vine fervice. In general, as the minifters 
are fucceflively promoted to better cures, 
according to their rank of feniority, they 
are obliged to enter early into the ecclefi- 
altical ftate, to have the perfpective of an 
Tour in Sweden. a 
advancement always wifhed for; it fol- 
lows, that the country fwarms with ad- 
junct priefts, chapel-curates, &c. whofe 
appointments are fo moderate, that they 
may be likened to the reyenues which fall to 
the greateft part of the curates in Ireland. 
There are, however, in Sweden paftors 
well paid; and it may be eatily conceiv- 
ed, when it is known that the tythe con- 
fifts of the thirtieth part of the corn reaped 
by the cultivator, of the eighth fheep, and 
of a pound of butterforevery cow. Cuftom 
moreover, authorizes the curate to take a 
cow from the ftable of a perfon deceated, if 
the herd is compofed of eight heads. In 
the habitations of thefe villagers, a hearth 
or achimney, placed at a corner of the 
room, lupplies the place of a flove and of 
a kitchen; in another corner is a bed 
with curtains; on another fide is feen a 
long table, and along the walls is a row 
of benches ; every thing is extremely neat. 
The walls are ufually white ; the peafants 
in more eafy circumftances decorate them 
with a nuwber of rows of fhining pewter- 
plates, with vellzls of copper, &<. Itisin this 
furnitare, and in their goblets of filver,that 
thefe fort of people difplay their luxury, 
and place their chief riches, while the’ 
German villages lay out their ready mo- 
ney in objects much more ufeful. 
‘¢ We had found hitherto, almoft gene- 
rally (fays the author) the peafants of 
Upland and Weftmanland employed in 
manufacturing woollen ftuffs for their own 
ule ; we found the other peafants of Weft- 
maniand occupied in the fame labours. 
They never think here of bringing thefe 
ftuffs to perfection, although the wool of 
the fheep, which are far trom being nu- 
merous, is very fine and long, but little 
curled. Unfortunately, they are ettablifh- 
ing in Sweden large manufactories, for 
which they import foreign wool, without 
proper exertions to draw the firft materials 
trom the country itfelf, 
«Tn the towns of any confideration, the 
ftranger every where meeis with inns 5 
but, according to our traveller, it is better 
to inquire for houfeholders who can fur- 
nifh jodgings; this method is commonly 
the mo{t commodious, and the cheapett. 
M. Schmith- next repairs to Sala; he 
examines the filver-mine that is found in 
its neighbeurhood. ‘The town offers no- 
thine remarkable. On his way towards 
Fahlun, he turns a little afide to infpect 
the iron-mine of Norberg, a vifit which he 
recommends to other travellers to make, 
from a confideration of the beauty, and of 
the importance of the labours, of the mine. 
His route conduéts him toSaeta, where ae 
vilit 
