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PREFACE.
It may possibly excite curiosity to know, why a native of Italy,
a country abounding in all the beauties of nature, and the
finest productions of art, should voluntarily undergo the danger
and fatigue of visiting the regions of the Arctic Circle.
He promised to himself, and he was not disappointed, much
gratification from contrasting the wild grandeur and simplicity
of the North, with the luxuriance, the smiling aspect, and the
refinements of his own country. He was willing to exchange, for
a time, the beauties of both nature and art, for the novelty, the
sublimity, and the rude magnificence of the northern climates.
Nor was it probable that such a contrasted scene would prove
barren of instruction, or be destitute of amusement. There is no
people so far advanced in civilization, or so highly cultivated, who
may not be able to derive some advantage from being acquainted
with the arts and sciences of other nations, even of such as are
the most barbarous. The human understanding is benefited by
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