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120 A TOUR. FHROUGH
mited traéls of ground be unincumbered of wood, which
Lhave no doubt might be effected by time and. indufiry,
what a blefled change might be wrought in-the face of
this country! The quality of the Soil appears in general
no way inferior to ours in England; there is no. reafon
therefore to fuppofe but that the common method of Eng-
“Jifh hufbandry would equally promote and produce the
like vegetation in Sweden.
One day when we were at dinner with Sir Thomas
Wroughton, where agriculture and improvements were
the topic of converfation, I could not help regretting that
To very large a tra&t of improvable ground, as Ehad lately
paffed over, fhould be fuffered’ to continue in fo rude and
uncultivated a flate, which by the hand of the induftrious
-ploughman might become rich and fertile. It is too true
replied a Swedith Gentleman prefent, but indolence and
inactivity are the conflitutional failings of my countrymen,
and may probably be afcribed to the feverity of the cli-
nate in which we live: We enjoy no mediocrity of fea-
fon; there is here no Spring: or-natural progreflive
warmth
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