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Another motive for publishing this book was, a desire of being
useful to future travellers, whom ardent curiosity might impel to
visit the northern districts. Those parts of Europe, which are, I
may say, almost abandoned by nature, are little known, and any
information concerning them must of course be acceptable.
Fashion, which extends its influence over every thing, appears,
in our day, to favour travels and expeditions to the North:
and the prevalence of this may, perhaps, have been increased by
the political troubles in the South of Europe. However this may
be, such as travel to those quarters are entitled to a degree of
regard and esteem which cannot justly be claimed by those who
visit the South of Europe: for the hardy North does not by any
means hold out the same luxuries, the same allurements of
climate, and the same temptations to pleasure that are presented by
a more genial and inviting soil. Journeys in the North will be
undertaken by those only who have a just and masculine taste
for nature, under every aspect, and are actuated by a desire of
enlarging their own information, and of instructing others.
With this view the Author, having reached the North Cape
by a route before considered as impracticable in summer, has
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