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sciences, and manners in Sweden, contains an account of
circumstances too bold, perhaps, to meet the public eye. But to have
re-composed and softened it, by the suppression of some
particulars, however personally prudent for the Author, would have been
to withhold from the reader a just and accutate idea of the state
of facts. It was incumbent upon him to sacrifice all inferior
considerations to a respect for the public and for truth.
With regard to that portion of the volumes which relates to
Finland and Lapland, the Author was for some time restrained
from producing it to the Public, by a motive of delicacy.
Colonel Skiöldebrand, a Swedish officer, the companion of his
travels, had announced his design of publishing in Stockholm his
drawings of picturesque scenery in those countries, accompanied
with descriptions of the objects represented in his plates. The
Author, therefore, suspended his own publication from a fear of
injuring the interests of his friend. But, on observing that the
announced work made its appearance only in numbers, that it
will not be completed for some years, and what is most material,
that any degree of success which might attend the present
publication, must only serve to promote that of the other, all scruples
of delicacy were removed.
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